Sat 07 August 2021:
On Saturday, US B-52 Stratofortress bombers launched attacks on Taliban forces in Sheberghan, the capital of the Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, inflicting heavy damage on the Taliban, according to Afghan defense ministry spokesman Fawad Aman.
“Taliban’s gathering was targeted by B-52 in #Shebergan city, Jawzjan province today evening at 6:30pm [14:00 GMT]. The #terrorists have suffered heavy casualties as a result of US Air Forces #airstrike,” Aman tweeted.
The New York Times reported earlier in the day that the US had ordered B-52 bombers and Spectre gunships to Afghanistan to halt the Taliban’s territorial advances in Kandahar, Herat, Lashkargah, and Helmand districts.
On Saturday, the Taliban announced that they seized the southwestern province of Nimruz and the northern province of Jawzjan. The capital of Nimruz, Zaranj, became the first provincial center the Taliban captured since 2016.
Afghanistan is seeing a spike in violence now as the Taliban have stepped up their offensive after international troops started a gradual withdrawal from the country, scheduled to be completed by September 11. The pullout was stipulated in the agreement the Taliban and the United States signed in Doha in February 2020.
File Photo: (US Air Force photo via AP/file)
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