Taliban step up attacks on key cities in southern and western Afghanistan
Amin Alemi
Press TV, Kabul
After gaining control over more than 200 districts in Afghanistan, the Taliban now seem to have a bigger plan that is capturing provincial centers across some strategic areas of the country.
The militants recently launched heavy attacks on centers of Herat, Kandahar and Helmand provinces in western and southern Afghanistan but Afghan forces mainly the commando troops and Afghan air force plus local armed fronts pushed back the Taliban from the entrance gates of these strategic cities.
Mohammad Ismail Khan – locally known as Amir Saib – is 78 years old. He is a popular political and Jihadi Leader in Afghanistan. He and thousands of his followers have decided to pick up guns and defend their home city, Herat in western Afghanistan which was on the verge of collapse by Taliban.
Ismail Khan believes that one of the main reasons behind the sharp advances of Taliban is the legitimacy granted to them by Washington under the US-Taliban Doha deal.
The Taliban have so far failed to gain control over provincial centers in southern and western Afghanistan but the rise of war has prompted thousands of local villagers to flee their houses in search of shelter.
In such circumstances, the Afghan government simultaneously insists on continuation of peace talks with the Taliban negotiating team in Doha and strengthening war fronts against the Taliban to retake the lost areas that cover nearly half of districts in Afghanistan.
Massacre in Pakistan’s Parachinar sparks outrage
IAEA's loss of opportunity to revive diplomacy after new anti-Iran resolution
Pro-Palestine solidarity campaigns facing repression in India
Israel launches air strikes on Syria-Lebanon border crossing
Russia: Comprehensive deal with Iran will include defense, security ties
VIDEO | Israeli embassy shooting in Jordan leaves gunman dead, 3 police injured
VIDEO | Paris march in support of Palestine women
VIDEO | ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, ousted regime war minister
120 Palestinians perish as Israeli war machine keeps ravaging Gaza
VIDEO | Struggles of Palestinian women amidst war, displacement
VIDEO | Hezbollah rains attack drones down on elite Israeli brigade
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
