Taliban forces launched nine separate substantial attacks in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, killing at least 59 security forces nationwide and overrunning several bases and outposts in different parts of the country.
Attacks were reported as far north as Kunduz, and as far south as Kandahar. The biggest attack was in the far west, along the Iranian border in Farah, where Taliban overran a border post, killing 20 soldiers and capturing as many as 25.
The Taliban confirmed that the Farah base was not only seized, but that they were able to seize substantial numbers of weapons and equipment at the site as well. Only a handful of the border patrol were able to escape the attack.
Taliban forces seized posts in Ghazni, Kandahar, and in other areas. Afghan officials are unusually quiet about the fighting, and it’s not clear where the defense ministry will give priority for reinforcements.If recent events are any indication, they will only be able to reinforce a handful of the targeted areas.
Memories of Tet come flooding back. Welcome to Vietnam, America…
Glad we’ve finally got the Taliban on the run after 17 years…oh, wait….
The Taliban are not attacking anyone–they are taking back their country after years of foreign occupation and US-installed puppets.
Yes, US allies in such circumstances would be called freedom fighters.
Reagan did call them freedom fighters (because it suited us to do that back then).
good one
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We are now in 18th year in Afghanistan. $900 billion wasted. Way past time to leave an unwinnable war that benefits only the MIC.
I sure am glad we ‘turned the corner’ in Afghanistan. Wait- what?
Iran — “Gotcha”
. . .from the link —
. . .news report from May
Iran says their support for the Taliban is only for the purpose of fighting their common enemy, ISIS. If one were to even consider the Taliban a terrorist organization it’s grossly hypocritical to accuse Iran of doing what we do.
The evidence is that Iran’s support for the Taliban is directed against the US puppet government in Afghanistan. It’s Iran hardliners playing hardball, and the US asked for it with its baseless, wrongful and illegal economic aggression against Iranians.
I was going by what that article said Iran claims. That they are only supporting the Taliban because of ISIS. They then say that supporting one terrorist group(Taliban)over another(ISIS)makes Iran’s claim flawed.
But the flaw in your argument is that the Taliban are a terrorist group. They are not. The argument has as much merit as the Israeli claim that hezbollah are a terrorust group, or the Saudi claim that the Houthis are one, i.e no merit at all.
That wasn’t/isn’t my argument. It was in the article from Don Bacon’s link. I don’t think the Taliban or Hezbollah are terrorist groups, nor the Houthis.