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| Afghan Forces Retake Two Districts in North: Defense Ministry |
| 2021-07-11 |
| [ToloNews] The Afghan Ministry of Defense on Saturday said that Afghan National Defense and Security Forces retook the control of Ali Abad district in Kunduz and Yaftal district in Badakhshan province from the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Sources said that Sorkh Parsa and Sheikh Ali districts in Parwan, Shorabak district in Kandahar and Alishing district in 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... have fallen to the Taliban in the past 24 hours. |
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