Taliban officials issued a statement Thursday claiming to have made substantial gains in the Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan, capturing the center of Shutul District.
Fighting centered on the district overnight and into Thursday morning, as the Taliban tried to claim the territory held by remnants of the former government’s forces. Both sides claim the other side sustained substantial casualties.
Some of the claimed figures are so high as to defy credibility. Remnant fighter spokesman Fahim Dashti claimed that in four days of fighting, 350 Taliban were killed and 290 more wounded. He also claimed the Taliban failed to enter Shutul, despite the Taliban showing videos of their fighters in the district.
The two sides had been negotiating to try to settle the disagreement without fighting, with the remnants potentially getting offered some power-sharing deals. So far, the talks have failed, and new fighting is the result.
We just saw the rest of Afghanistan collapse, with these same pundits telling us it wouldn’t happen.
Now they are down to one isolated cut off valley, and still saying the same things.
So far no humanitarian disaster hysteria from the globalists.
Could be just letting the Taliban clean up loose ends for a reset Afghanistan.