Wed 07 July 2021:
All the districts of the Badghis province have fallen to Taliban after heavy conflicts between the Taliban fighters and government forces, khaama Press News Agency Reported.
People representative from Badghis province in parliament confirms that the province’s central city Qala-e-naw falls to Taliban fighters Tuesday noon after the militants toppled several districts of the province yesterday.
Provincial governor of Badghis province has also confirmed that all the districts of the province have fallen to Taliban after heavy conflicts between the Taliban fighters and government force members.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid too said that its fighters have entered into Qala-e-naw city.
The provincial capital in western Afghanistan falls to Taliban at a time when its delegation led by Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai is holding talks with Afghan politicians in Tehran.
“Qala-e-Naw was in a state of disarray as security forces and people do not know what to do now,” Badghis provincial council chief Abdul Aziz Bek told Reuters news agency.
Since mid-April, when US President Joe Biden announced the end to Afghanistan’s “forever war”, the Taliban has made strides throughout the country.
But its most significant gains have been in the northern half of the country, a traditional stronghold of the US-allied strongmen who helped defeat them in 2001.
The Taliban now controls roughly a third of all 421 districts and district centres in Afghanistan.
Their advances have been forcing Afghan government forces to surrender.
The latest advancement comes days after US and NATO forces vacated their main Bagram airbase near Kabul, from where they led operations for 20 years against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies.
The areas under Taliban control, especially in the north, are increasingly strategic, running along Afghanistan’s border with Central Asian states. Last month, the group took control of Imam Sahib, a town in Kunduz province opposite Uzbekistan and gained control of a key trade route.
Earlier this week, the Taliban seized the northeastern Badakhshan province, as well as its former bastion of Kandahar.
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