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Afghanistan Updates: Taliban terrorists take control of Faizabad city
Kabul: Taliban fighters have taken over the control of major areas of another city in northern Afghanistan, Badakhshan province’s capital Faizabad, and are on the way to capture it.
If so, it would be the eighth provincial capital to fall to the insurgents in the past six days.
Jawad Mujadidi, a provincial council member from Badakhshan, said the Taliban had laid siege to Faizabad after launching an intense offensive in morning of August 10.
Reportedly, a number of security forces have retreated from the capital city to Kishim district following the Taliban attack.
The Taliban is also giving a tough fight to capture the city of Mazar-e-Sharif. To combat the offensive, some politicians in Balkh province have established a new mobilization council in the province to protect the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
This council consists of officials and representatives of the parties and has elected former Balkh Governor Atta Mohammad Noor as its chairman. Commenting on the operations of the mobilization council, Noor said that the ‘People’s Mobilization Forces’ were obliged to defend the city of Mazar-e-Sharif against Taliban attacks and to take part in offensive operations to retake lost territory.
According to local media reports, most of the areas in Pul-e-Khumri city, the capital of Baghlan province, have collapsed to the Taliban.
However, Afghan security forces claimed to have evacuated Pul-e-Khumri city. Similarly, capital city of Farah in Farah province is also largely being controlled by the Taliban.
The National Directorate of Security (NDS) office in the province is currently under siege by the Taliban amidst clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban. Also, the Governor’s compound and police headquarters have fallen to the Taliban.
Taliban has also intensified its offensive in Uruzgan province. Uruzgan’s Governor, Mohammad Omar Sherzad, said (August 10) that the Taliban had tried to attack the provincial capital, Tarin Kowt, but was repulsed by the Afghan forces.
The Afghan Defence Ministry informed that 439 Taliban terrorists were killed and 77 were injured in different operations carried out by the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) across Afghan provinces in the past 24 hours. These provinces include Nangarhar, Laghman, Logar, Paktia, Uruzgan, Zabul, Ghor, Farah, Balkh, Helmand, Kapisa, Baghlan.
The Faryab police informed that following the visit of Marshal Dostum to province, security forces attacked the Taliban in capital city Maimana, and caused severe casualties to Taliban. The neutralized terrorists also included four terrorists of Pakistani origin.
Afghanistan’s State Minister for Disaster Management, Ghulam Bahauddin Jilani, informed (August 10) that in the last two months, more than 60,000 families in the provinces have been displaced by the escalation of the war.
The number of families who have recently been displaced from their homes and taken refuge in Kabul as a result of the violence has risen to 17,000. Jilani explained that the urgent facilities of caring for the families, who have mainly gathered in the Saray Shamali area and Kabul Shahr-e Naw Park, was started on August 9.
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