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2021-08-11 Afghanistan
Taliban enter third provincial capital in 12 hours, seventh in four days
[KhaamaPress] Sources have told Khaama Press that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
fighters have entered the northern historic provincial capital of Polikhumri, Baghlan province Tuesday evening August 10.

As per the sources, the fighters have crossed security outposts of the center of the province and the Afghan Defense and Security Forces have retreated and people are horror escaping the city.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.

Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?

Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.

No, he said. Do you?...

the Taliban spokesperson Zabiullha Mujahid in a Twitter post said that the fighters have entered the Polikhumri city and Faizabad city of Badakhshan province.

The spokesperson claims that the button men have inflicted casualties to Afghan government forces in both the historic provincial capitals and the forces are chased away from the cities.

Earlier today, sources had confirmed the Taliban to have entered the center of Farah province and have broken the central prison.

The Afghan government has not yet confirmed the collapse of any of these three cities.

If confirmed, the northern industrial city of Polikhumri will be the seventh city after Zaranj, Kunduz, Taloqan, Aibak, Farah, and Faizabad to be falling to the Taliban in the past four days.

The unprecedented capture of territories in the past two decades comes as the warring parties are set to negotiate on the situation and probably peace, in Doha on Wednesday.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ]  Top
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#1 Taliban are going door-to-door forcibly 'marrying' girls as young as TWELVE to their fighters as sex slaves in Afghan regions they now control
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-11 07:22||   2021-08-11 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden says Afghan leaders must 'fight for their nation' as Taliban gains
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-11 07:29||   2021-08-11 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Afghanistan's collapse continues: Taliban capture two more cities taking total to nine as US intel warns Kabul could fall in a MONTH - handing control of the country back to the Islamists
Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-11 07:29||   2021-08-11 07:29|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 IMO, loot & women provide a lot more sensible reason for waging a war than nation building.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-11 07:47||   2021-08-11 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Seriously, anyone with an IQ of more than 30 really surprised by this?
Posted by DarthVader 2021-08-11 10:14||   2021-08-11 10:14|| Front Page Top

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