Taliban Capture Afghan Cities Lashkar Gah, Kandahar In Rapid Advance
Kabul, Afghanistan: The Taliban have captured the key southern city of Lashkar Gah, a senior Afghan security source told AFP on Friday, confirming a claim by the insurgents Military and officialdom had evacuated the town after striking a affect the militants, the safety source told AFP.
The Taliban claimed Friday to possess captured Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city, which might leave just the capital and pockets of other territory within the government’s hands.
“Kandahar is totally conquered. The Mujahideen reached Martyrs’ Square within the city,” a Taliban spokesman tweeted on an officially recognised account — a claim backed by a resident, who told AFP government forces seemed to have withdrawn en bloc to a military facility outside the town .
The claim was protected by a resident, who told AFP government forces seemed to have withdrawn en bloc to a military facility outside the southern city.
The government has now effectively lost control of most of the country, following an eight-day blitz into urban centres by the Taliban that has left the Afghan government and its US backers stunned The offensive was launched after the us and its allies about withdrew its forces from Afghanistan, with President Joe Biden determined to finish 20 years of war by 9/11 .
