Two provincial capitals in Afghanistan all except falling to the Taliban on Tuesday, this time in the country west and north, said local officials, marking seventh and eight to be controlled in less than a week.
The Taliban has penetrated the time at Farah City, the provincial capital with the same name, because Western Province has become a focal point for groups of offensive groups in the country for years.
Gulbuddin, a police officer at Farah City, said that government officials had fled to the military headquarters several miles outside the city and that the main prison was violated by Taliban fighters.
The road, he said, is full of released prisoners.
And in the north, the grip in the months of the Taliban in the capital city of Baghlan, Pul-i-Khumri, finally succeeded, forced government forces to retreat.
The city is on the highway that connects the northern province to Kabul, which means the rebels only need to turn south and advance to start giving more pressure on the country’s capital.
Mohammad Kamin Baghlani, a pro-government militia commander in Baghlan, said that Pul-I-Khumri had fallen on Tuesday and that his forces had retreated to the south.
“All the city areas fall,” he said.
“We are under a lot of pressure, and we can’t refuse again.” Masood Bakhtawar, Governor of Farah Province, denied that the city had been captured by the rebels and said that the battle was underway.
Bismullah Attash, a member of the Provincial Board in Baghlan Province, said the city of Pul-i-Khumri fell after government forces had refused there for months.
Farah and Pul-i-I-Khumri may fall when Afghan security forces have fended off attacks in other cities, including in Herat Province, where the battle has been reported outside the capital.
Taliban entrenched in Kandahar and Lashkar Gah in the south and outside Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan, a remote northern province which was once considered an anti-Taliban camp.
Cannot be said what this loss will definitely be done against morals that have shrunk moral from government security forces.
Seizures now six provincial capital in the northern province in five days has sent thousands of refugees to the south to seek protection in Kabul, the country’s capital.
The basketball court fenced in the city center transferred to a shelter.
On Monday, refugees are moved together under the emergency lodge consisting of a little more than the sheets that stretch on wood poles.
The US, meanwhile, showed no signs of air strikes in Afghanistan despite accelerating the benefits of the Taliban.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby stressed that Americans now see the fight as one for political and military leaders of the Afghanistan to win or lose.
He added, “This is their country to survive now.
This is their struggle.” General Mark Milley, Chair of his own head of staff, spoke with the top East Middle East Commander, General Frank McKenzie, on Monday, officials said.
But defense and military leaders have not provided new recommendations to improve US operations to defend Afghanistan.
The Taliban forced now controls 65% of the Afghan region, and tried to eliminate Kabul from his traditional support from the north, a senior UE official said.