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2021-06-19 Afghanistan
As Clashes Continue MoD Claims Heavy Toll on Taliban
[ToloNews] Clashes were reported in 13 provinces in the last 24 hours with security forces evacuating two districts in the north while retaking control of one district in the south on Thursday night.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed that 258 Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
were killed in security forces operations in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, Paktia, Zabul, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Farah, Ghor, Faryab, Balkh, Jawzjan, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Takhar and Baghlan provinces in the last 24 hours.

Taliban has rejected the figures.

The security forces evacuated from the center of Shirin Tagab district in Faryab and Dahana-e-Ghori district in Baghlan. The Defense Ministry said that security forces retook the control of Gereshk district in Helmand.

Moreover, an Afghan National Army base was fallen to the Taliban in Maidan Shahr, the center of Maidan Wardak province, a source said.

A base was fallen to the Taliban in Qala-e-Kah district in Farah province on Thursday evening.

The Taliban launched attacks on Qala-e-Kah district in the last two days, sources said, adding that at least eight security force members were killed in the festivities.

"There is the possibility that the city of Maimana (in Faryab) and Khawja Sabzposh district (in Faryab) will fall to the Taliban; therefore, there is a need for air support," an MP Shafiqa Sakha Youlchi said.

"The Shirin Tagab district has been under siege for three years," said Sibghatullah Silab, the deputy head of the Faryab provincial council. "The district will fall to Taliban due to lack of supply and weaponry."

According to Faryab provincial council, several military vehicles and equipment were seized by the Taliban in Shirin Tagab.

Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said that operations have had progress in some of the areas that were evacuated by security forces.

Violence has intensified following the start of the withdrawal of US and coalition forces from Afghanistan. A parliamentary committee on Thursday reported fighting on 200 fronts across the country in just a day. Moreover, at least 30 districts have fallen to the Taliban in the last two months.

The negotiations in Doha have stalled after the announcement of the withdrawal of US and coalition forces by President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.......
. The negotiating teams from the Afghan Republic and the Taliban held a meeting later this week, discussing ways to hold future meetings, but the high level of violence has diminished hopes for progress in the negotiations.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
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#1 Hibatullah Akhundzada, mentioned by name along with Sirajuddin Haqqani in a 2019 Al Qaeda missive as "our leaders from the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan"? How very revealing your choices are, Black dirt.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-19 14:50||   2021-06-19 14:50|| Front Page Top

#2 May Allah grant you prosperous growing seasons, legions of subservient wives, and many dancing boys.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-19 14:59||   2021-06-19 14:59|| Front Page Top

#3 We gave the Afghans a half decent chance to take their country back from the ravages of Islam but it appears not to be. I hope their Olympic team does well in the winter Olympics in Japan. I hear their figure skating team is one of the best.
Posted by jpal 2021-06-19 17:37||   2021-06-19 17:37|| Front Page Top

#4 
Me thinks the following news headline may soon appear:

Afghan Olympic Team Does Well in the Winter Olympics in Japan: Defects to West after Winning a Bronze 🥉 Metal and Goes for the GOLD by Defection
Posted by Bill Clunk9066 2021-06-19 18:29||   2021-06-19 18:29|| Front Page Top

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