Taliban has upped its floor offensive ever because the US has began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. For the final 5 days, fierce combating has damaged out in three main cities within the south and west Afghanistan, specifically Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar, as Taliban militants search to grab them from authorities forces. According to Hindi every day Navbharat Times, the Taliban, on August 2 (Monday) captured a radio station in Lashkar Gah.
The Helmand TV station, situated in Lashkar Gah, the capital metropolis of Helmand province, is operated by state-run Radio and Television Afghanistan. The report means that the Taliban have taken over the TV station to broadcast threats and warnings and to additionally propagate the Taliban’s Voice of Shariah.
Media gagged as Taliban terrorists are not looking for their injustices uncovered
Meanwhile, different media homes have reported that the Afghan info ministry has confirmed that as many as 4 tv and 11 radio stations within the metropolis had been seized and has stopped broadcasting after receiving threats from the Taliban. Only the aforementioned TV station had been working and streaming Islamic programming.
The radio stations had been reportedly captured as a retaliation to the US airstrikes, which the latter has intensified towards the Taliban in a bid to halt the terrorists’ advances on quite a few main Afghan provincial capitals, particularly in District 1 of southern Helmand province.
“Terrorists do not want the media to publish the facts and expose their injustices,” the Ministry of Information and Culture stated.
Taliban terrorists utilizing civilians as shields
It can be being reported that the Taliban terrorists are hiding in civilian properties and utilizing them as shields. Because of this many atypical civilians are having to bear the brunt of the Afghan officers. Many such homes the place officers suspect the Taliban terrorist is perhaps hiding have been bombed previously few days. Following these strikes, 9 lifeless our bodies and eight wounded had been despatched to Lashkar Gah’s emergency hospital on Monday.
Herat, Kandahar and Lashkar Gah below seige
Over the previous 72 hours, US airstrikes have focused Taliban positions across the cities of Herat, Kandahar and Lashkar Gah, a senior Afghan safety official stated on Monday.
While Navbharat Times has reported that as many as seven Taliban terrorists had been neutralised within the airstrikes performed by the US on August 2 (Monday), a report by Hindustan Times stated that the Afghan defence ministry had knowledgeable that at the very least 40 Taliban terrorists have been killed in a US airstrike in Lashkar Gah metropolis.
However, the Afganistan defence ministry tweeted on Sunday that as many as 300 Talibani terrorists have been killed and tons of wounded in operations by Afghanistani safety forces in several provinces since Saturday. “254 Taliban terrorists were killed and 97 wounded as a result of ANDSF (Afghanistan National Defence and Security Forces) operations in Ghazni, Kandahar, Herat, Farah, Jowzjan, Balkh, Samangan, Helmand, Takhar, Kunduz, Baghlan, Kabul & Kapisa provinces during the last 24 hours. Also, 13 IEDs were discovered & defused by #ANA,” learn the Tweet.
As a results of these clashes, as many as 330,000 Afghans have been displaced and at the very least 30,000 flee their properties each week to flee the Taliban rule.
Since the US troops started the final stage of their withdrawal from Afghanistan in early May, the Islamic terrorist organisation has seized management of a lot of rural Afghanistan, however they’re going through resistance as they attempt to seize the provincial capitals.
General Sami Sadat, the Afghan common, who has been main the battle towards the Taliban within the southern province of Helmand, has warned of “devastating” penalties for international safety if the Taliban win of their struggle towards authorities forces.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has raised considerations over the safety of civilians, caught between the conflict.
Deepening concern for Afghan civilians in #Lashkagah as combating worsens. Latest stories present 118 civilians injured & 40 killed inside final 24 hours as Taliban proceed floor assault & Afghan Army makes an attempt to repel. UN urges fast finish to combating in city areas. #Afghanistan https://t.co/7XNlBYJSzo— UNAMA News (@UNAMAnews) August 3, 2021
Referring to the Afghan nationwide military, UNAMA Tweeted on August 3 (Tuesday): “Deepening concern for Afghan civilians in #Lashkagah as fighting worsens. Latest reports show 118 civilians injured & 40 killed within last 24 hours as Taliban continue ground assault & Afghan Army attempts to repel. UN urges immediate end to fighting in urban areas. #Afghanistan”.