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2021-08-03 Afghanistan
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Lashkargah fighting, Day 5: Taliban seize TV and radio stations, U.S. airstrikes kill 40 Talibs as fighting continues
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[TASS] Militants from the Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) seized the building of the regional state TV and radio center in the city of Lashkar Gah on Monday, the administrative center of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, TOLOnews television network reports referring to its sources.
According to TOLOnews, all local media outlets in Helmand province have stopped operating. The staff of the TV and radio center left the building two days ago.
Early in July, the Taliban took control over Afghanistan’s regions along the border with five countries - Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, China and Pakistan - against the background of the withdrawal of western coalition troops.
The new commander of the Afghan Armed Forces, General Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai, said the army’s priority was to protect the main cities of the country, border crossing points and roads against the Taliban. According to him, Taliban leaders intend to first cut off the main roads via which goods are supplied, and then launch an offensive on cities and regions.
US airstrikes hit Taliban in Helmand province
[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan Ministry of Defense confirmed that the US army has conducted aerial strikes in the picturesque provincial capital-Lashkargah- city of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province on Monday, August 02.
215 Maiwand corps based in southern Helmand province also said that the aerial strikes killed 40 Taliban
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fighters.
The Afghan government though did not confirm civilian people being hit, sources in the picturesque provincial capital have said eight members of a family including children killed in the strikes.
The corps added that the fighters had attacked central prison in Lashkargah city which was driven back by the strikes.
US army has recently intensified its Arclight airstrike
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s on the Taliban to support Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
Earlier US CENTCOM commander General McKenzie had said that the US army will conduct airstrikes in support of the ANDSF in the fight against the Taliban even after full withdrawal but acknowledged that the strikes will be over the horizon.
The Taliban attacked Lashkargah city nearly ten days ago and recently toppled two Police Districts in the city and then got closer to the central jail.
The Afghan government has recently sent reinforcements to the city which led to heavy conflicts between the warring sides leaving hundreds of families displaced.
Fighting in Helmand's Capital Lashkargah Continues for 5th Day
[ToloNews] Clashes between government forces and the Taliban
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intensified in the city of Lashkargah in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, leaving some streets of the city empty of residents and adding to concerns about rising threats to major capitals.
The frontline was in District 1 where the US conducted an Arclight airstrike
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on Monday morning that left seven Taliban killed, according to the Defense Ministry.
Lawmakers from Helmand said that the prison and the police headquarters are under siege and that festivities in District 1 are focused on capturing the district governor’s compound.
Nine bodies and eight maimed were taken to the Emergency Hospital in Lashkargah on Monday, officials said.
"Fighting is underway in Lashkargah. The security forces are not in a good condition there," said Mohammad Jami, a civil society activist from Helmand.
"Recently people’s homes were bombarded. The Taliban is hiding in people’s houses and using them as shields," said Akhtar Mohammad Badi Zai, a civil society activist from Helmand.
The Taliban has taken over 12 districts in Helmand except for Kajaki district and has captured nine out of 10 districts in the city of Lashkargah, security sources said.
Sources said all media broadcasts halted in Helmand as festivities intensified in Lashkargah.
The national TV office in Helmand in Lashkargah's District 1 was taken over by the Taliban on Monday morning, sources said, who also said that employees of the media outlet have not been in the office for the last two days.
Sources said that Matiullah Popal, the acting police chief for Nawzad district in Helmand, was killed while fighting the Taliban in the city of Lashkargah on Monday morning.
"We will soon witness the fall of Lashkargah if the situation continues," said Shogufa Nawrozi, an MP from Helmand.
The Defense Ministry said the Taliban has sustained heavy casualties in the Helmand festivities.
"Firmly support the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces as well as the Republic. Besides this, make efforts for mobilizing the people," President Ghani told politicians at a special session on Monday.
Also on Monday, five security force members were also killed in a Taliban attack on their outposts in the west of Charikar City in the central province of Parwan.
And there was an incident in Baghlan province: "There was a misunderstanding between the police and the public uprising forces and three people were killed and three were maimed," said Ahmad Jawed Basharat, a front man for the Baghlan police.
Government figures indicate that 455 Taliban were killed in Afghan forces operations in the past 24 hours and 232 more were maimed. The Taliban has denied this claim. 
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