Taliban spacial forces, illustrative image
On August 1, the Taliban claimed that its fighters had breached the main defense line of the northwestern Afghan city of Herat.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, shared on Twitter a video showing fighters of the group in the outskirts of Heart. According to Mujahid, the fighters are now advancing inside the city.
د هرات ښار نواحي له دښمن څخه تصفیه شوي او مجاهدینو د ښار مرکزي سیمو ته پر مختګ کړی دی. pic.twitter.com/tDz5A6aTU3
— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) August 1, 2021
#Taliban in #Herat city pic.twitter.com/9ueSyJSfe1
— Tariq Ghazniwal (@TGhazniwal) August 1, 2021
Earlier, the Afghan government sent large reinforcements of security forces to Herat in order to repel the Taliban’s attack, which began four days earlier.
Abdul Rahman Rahman, senior deputy of the Afghan Interior Ministry, revealed that government forces are preparing to launch a large-scale operation to push Taliban fighters away from Herat city.
“We have come with the security forces from Kabul and these forces have joined Herat forces,” the TOLO News quoted Rahman as saying. “We will act as soon as possible to defend the Herat people.”
At least 20 people were killed, including 16 security force members, and 90 people were wounded in the past four days of fighting in Herat.
A Gas station caught fire due to heavy clashes in the PD-2 of Herat city this evening. pic.twitter.com/KM1KzcRMRR
— Zoya 🚨 (@Zoya_nafidi) August 1, 2021
As for now, the Taliban has the upper hand in the battle of Herat. The situation may change in the upcoming few days, especially if the Afghan Air Force intervene.
The Taliban has been advancing on several fronts since April 14, when the US announced a plan to pull its troops out from Afghanistan before September 11. The group claims that it does not seek to take over the country by force, yet its moves on the ground suggest otherwise.
Go Talibs! Kabul’s a waiting
Taliban are just as bad as ISIS. How about let the people of Afghanistan decide what they want not some extremists religious group.
The Taliban are Afganis. They would not have advanced so rapidly if they didn’t have at least some support from the civilian population – a lot more support than the Outlaw US emperialists received. How about letting the Afghanis decide without foriegners offering “helpful” opinions about the validity of their ideology.
Armed thugs willing to murder those that don’t comply with their demands always have support from the unarmed civilian population anywhere in the world. As I said let the Afghanis freely choose what they want sort of makes you other comment redundant , a little like you.
Peter Wallace You referring to zio Christian west created terrorist groups such Al Qaida, ISIS,Daesh etc correct ? Then there are state sponsored terrorist groups that you see but never mention ie zionist squatters in Palestine In India they are RSS/BJP Hinduveta Vigilantes In Myanmar and in Africa as well Then Christian churches are there like you see in Canada how they Treated native population children etc Like you see every day in streets of USA and EU how blacks are being targeted
So nice of you to have the opinion I am not allowed an opinion. I see you cancelled out my downvote but oh dear it looks like someone else doesn’t agree with you either.. As my downvote is from you it means it is just meaningless , like you.
I can assure you those guys that support the Taliban are mostly Pakistani and probably isi online assets. My question to every Pakistani that supports the Taliban is why don’t they prefer a government like the Taliban in Pakistan? Why don’t they implement sharia law in Pakistan? Why don’t they join the Pakistani taliban and do the same in Pakistan?
The hypocrisy is just beyond comprehension, they want death and destruction in Afghanistan because of the geopolitical interests involved and keep denying their support of terrorism. Soon they will pay the price for their actions.
Afghan sage The Taliban are made up of thousands of fighters who are all Afghans. They are fed, sheltered, and transported by the Afghan people, not aliens. The Taliban have been fighting NATO regimes using guerrilla war tactics, a methodology impossible to sustain for so many years without popular support. This isan aspect deliberately missing from media reports of Western regimes.
I didnt touch the votes. Do you think the ad hominen advances your argument?
Peter Wallace The Taliban are made up of thousands of fighters who are all Afghans. They are fed, sheltered, and transported by the Afghan people, not aliens. The Taliban have been fighting NATO regimes using guerrilla war tactics, a methodology impossible to sustain for so many years without popular support. This is an aspectdeliberately missing from media reports of Western regimes.
All the respect for the Taliban. Their 20 year struggle against foreign imperialist occupation is finally coming to an end. Hope to see a Taliban tank symbolically crashing through the gate of the presidential palace just like vietnam.
Their 20 years struggle? what the fuk you mean? They mostly go to Pakistan to hide you moron, LMFAO. The only people who struggle were the Afghan civilians, the Taliban and yanquis killed them together. Taliban was created by Wahhabi+Yanquis+Pakistan ISS, they never hold full control of Afghanistan, NEVER. There wasn’t such thing as a Taliban government LOL, Afghanistan was run by warlords, you can’t have a government in Afghanistan even, Afghans are divided by ethnicities and mountains.
Pashtun are mostly Taliban and a lot more are in Pakistan and they are Pakistani Taliban. I laugh my ass off when the Taliban take 1/3 of Pakistan LMFAO, remember kiddo nor Afghanistan or the Taliban accepted the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Pakistan is a made-up “state” by the British and the Taliban take their lands, if they take the power which wouldn’t happen – there will be a civil war.
I wait and laugh right here at you mor0ns who thinks Taliban take over and that would be the end.
The Taliban are the other side of the ISIS coin, they are no better. Yes the Afghan government is corrupt, yes the senior officials are sellouts but the Afghan army has the capability to slaughter the rag tag Taliban rats. Problem is they hide in people’s houses and as some one who lives inside a city they are currently fighting in, I hear from local population they are using people as human shields which ties the hands of Afghan army as they can’t be like the Taliban and destroy people’s houses. They appear in small numbers and initiate a fire fight for a shirt while they disappear SOBs.
Those of you here who support the Taliban have no idea what evil they are and what evil they plan to implement. They are brain washed in maddrassas in Pakistan and sent to just wreak havoc and only bring ignorance, death and destruction. Only because you don’t like the Americans, shouldn’t mean you should be happy with the suffering of the MAJORITY of Afghan people. The Taliban have supporters from the local population but a vast majority hate them with a capital H.
The ignorance in some if the comments here about the Taliban is just beyond laughable.
Afghanistan was doing pretty well in the late 60’s until the US encouraged extremist forces, created chaos, and the country’s been in free fall ever since. This has been repeated in many countries, Ukraine and Syria being the most recent.
The CIA were in Afghanistan building up support to attack the Taliban long before 9/11which created the excuse to invade. As you say they were also involved in the chaos that led to the Russian invasion. They will still be there with their death squads until it gets too hot and need evac.
One demented faction fighting another demented group of brainwashed idiots.