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2021-08-16 Afghanistan
Western Wardak province falls to Taliban
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid claims to have taken Wardak province bordering Kabul in the west of Kabul.

This brings the total number of Kabul’s neighboring provinces to three out of five to be toppled by the fighters in the past 12 hours.

The Taliban took Pashtun-infested Logar province in the south of Kabul on Saturday noon, 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...
province in the east of Kabul on Saturday night, and now Wardak province on Sunday morning.

Zabiullah Mujahid in a Twitter post said the Maidan Wardak province has fallen to the fighters and the province-based Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have fled to Kabul.

The province for over a month had been in the control of the Taliban but the scenic provincial capital Maidan Shar.

Parwan and Kapisa are two other neighboring provinces of Kabul that have been witnessing heavy conflicts between the warring sides and the Afghan government is holding merely control over the capital city of Kapisa province.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
there are reports of Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
bordering Pakistain in the southeast being surrendered to the Taliban without resistance and confrontations.

On Saturday night, the eastern 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..
and Laghman province fell to the Taliban after negotiations with the governors of the Afghan government and the Taliban.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top
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