Afghan National Army soldiers prepare to move out following an inspection of troops at the Regional Military Training Center at Tactical Base Gamberi, Afghanistan, on July 30, 2015. JARROD MORRIS/U.S. ARMY
On July 8, Afghan government forces recaptured Qala-e-Naw city, the capital of the northwestern province of Badghis, from the Taliban.
Taliban fighters stormed the city a day earlier following fierce clashes with local security forces. The fighters stormed key government buildings and freed around 600 prisoners from the province central prison.
Footage shows Taliban fighters in parts of Qalay Naw city, the capital of Badghis province. pic.twitter.com/zZgGQv02QV
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) July 7, 2021
Breaking: #ANDSF surrendered to Taliban in #Badghis pic.twitter.com/IhNtHvCrxh
— Tariq Ghazniwal (@tariqghazniwal) July 8, 2021
Qala-e-Naw is currently in the hands of government forces. However, clashes with Taliban fighters are still ongoing in the city’s outskirts.
“The city is fully [back] under our control and we are conducting operations against the Taliban on the outskirts of the city,” Fawad Aman, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, said.
According to the Afghan MoD, 69 Taliban fighters were killed and 23 others were wounded during recent operations in the outskirts of Qala-e-Naw. Loads of weapons and ammunition were also captured from the group.
Afghan Air Force carried a number of air strikes against Taliban in Qalay Naw, Badghis. Here a car bomb was destroyed by MD-530 attack helicopter. Video shared with me. pic.twitter.com/2IohmxmifK
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) July 7, 2021
The rest of Badghis province remains in the hands of the Taliban. The group’s offensive on Qala-e-Naw city will not likely end soon.
Ongoing fighting reported by residents in Qalay Naw , the capital of Badghis province. Taliban fighters launched a second wave of attacks against a city packed with civilians including women and children. pic.twitter.com/oi8HH5gDVo
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) July 8, 2021
The US decision to pull its troops out from Afghanistan before September 11 raised the morale of the Taliban. The group stepped up its attacks on government forces throughout the country. Today, the group claims to be holding over 200 districts in 34 provinces.
This was an exploratory attack by Taliban. The next round will end in Taliban victory.
i think Taliban can attack Iran one day
i think Taliban hate Iran
you think? why dont you find out and get back to us….iran would move in and wipe out the taliban if they attacked iran
The Taliban seized the Islam Qala crossing point, a major transportation route between Iran and Afghanistan, in Afghanistan’s western Herat province, according to an Afghan official in the province who spoke with the AP on the condition of anonymity. Iranian media reported Afghan soldiers in the border area fled their posts into Iran for protection amid the Taliban’s takeover. Iranian media has shown over 200 Afghan soldiers who fled to the Iranian side along with their heavy weapons, which included several APC, Toyota Hi-lux and Humvees.
The ANA had almost twenty years to eradicate the poppy fields and end US occupation of their country. Instead they preferred the western paycheck and western command.
Now it is up to any other group to eradicate this filth that has affected many hundreds of thousands of Afghani people and many others throughout the region.
Funny thing, so the yanquis were the main force in Afghanistan and they took the role of training Afghan (ANA), the problem now is…the ANA doesn’t have air support anymore, I should say not as much. Yeah, right now it is Afghani people who are fighting back like you know the past 20 years. Ohhh btw Imran Shah Masood’s SON showed his face… you damn know he will be the leader, I wonder how much time it would take for him to take the power and rebuild his father’s legacy.
Let’s see, if the Afghani who kills Sunni Taliban would ask Iran for help or the Afghani government k-ill or kick that clown Ghani out and ask Iran for help. They need help and Iran has long plans for Afghanistan, it is still waiting and see what each do. Russia and China also have plans. :) it is far from over.
I remember watching the yanquis kicking and fuking mothers of Sunni Taliban before the yanquis stop killing those clowns and made a deal. https://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/air-strikes/2-apaches-engage-taliban-platoon/1741618611001
Even now the Afghani “government” has air support which gives them free kill.
It seems the Afghani government losing power and giving weapons to anyone free😂. The clowns are gone now it is militia time.
You are stupid buddy, that fuking Afghan “government” sucked yanquis di*k and attacked Iran. The Afghani army is fuking useless when they got the same training as yanquis now…where is their air support? Where can they now get intel for free? Most Afghani are backward Sunnis, they are part of the Taliban, which is also true. The only losers here are other groups that don’t like Taliban rules and ofc Shia groups.
Why are you making me sound like I support the Taliban? I don’t, fuk ’em. But the same Afghan Army is fuking useless, just remember even back when yanquis were there they didn’t achieve much. The militias were the ones protecting their homes and their loved ones.
Do you know how fuking moronic those clowns in the Afghan government are? They don’t want to give/support those militias because they “believe” it would divide the country, the fuk.
no taliban will not massacre the population they dont have the guts to go so far they would be crushed soon after they know by now that they have to win the population over to their side
all factions in afghanistan have no choice but to listen to iran they wont make it for long if they play foul games or if they do wicked things than they will end up punished soon after so there will be something figured out on how to continue but nato cant stay no nato member can stay in afghanistan they will all die if they try no matter if its america british germany turkey or who ever they are dead if they dont leave
the likes of aschraf ghani standing near a river and threating iran wont survive for much longer the afghanistan which will be formed will not be able to play any games against iran or be used as a base to annoy its neighbors and the war will only end if iran is sure of it being a sustainable peace and if not than iran will use its power to support the sunni and shia factions of afghanis which are already aligned to the islamic revolution which means iran will create an ansarallah like government in afghanistan if they fail to create sustainable peace
I dont understand whatever motive the Taliban has to kill their own countrymen. The Alliance is now withdrawing. The invaders are getting off the country and yet, this is the time they intensify their attacks. Seizing power over the bodies of their countrymen leads me to believe they wont preserve any of the democratic rights and institutions introduced recently. Not a good outcome for the Afghan people. Why cant these two groups just wait out an election?
What democratic rights did the Taliban observe last time they were in power. NONE. Brutal religious rule where women and men were regularly flogged in the town square for the slightest infraction of their law and executions were common. Girls were not allowed to go to school . women had to be dressed in tents and the men a fully grown beard. All radios and TVs were banned. The Taliban took control of Afghanistan last time by fighting and beating the various Mujahedeen groups that had fought the Russians. They are used to killing their own and as for an election. The only election they know of is that THEY rule. They are only marginally worse than ISIS and you expected something else just because the Yanks pulled out. Joke !!.
I agree with you. I really don’t understand how some people suck Taliban di*ks for… The US is not leaving Afghanistan alone, they still going to bomb Afghanistan…cry me a river moron but the yanquis still going to kill civilians. Taliban are backward fuking apes…I welcome any Taliban lover to go live under Taliban rule before making a BS statement about them. Also, if one of you fukers says it is “their” country…go fuk yourself, moron.
I think people so despise the Yanks they don’t accept there are worse options. While the Yanks were wrong the Taliban are even worse. Last time when the Russians pulled out all the various Mujahedeen groups fought each other for control of Afghanistan which allowed the Taliban to take total power. It is the people who will continue to suffer as they have for the last 50 years depending on which group held power.
Must have been a lot of the Jews’ Z(C)IA’s poppy fields in that province. No other reason for the Jews’ Afghanistan tyranny, government, quislings to have rushed to defend it.