Kabul: There have been a series of violent clashes ever since the US announced its withdrawal.
Twenty Taliban terrorists were killed on July 3rd, 2021, in heavy fighting between Afghan defense forces and the terror group in Badakhshan province.
“A total of 20 Taliban rebels and three soldiers have been killed in Badakhshan over the past 24 hours,” an army officer in the province Captain Abdul Razaq said Saturday.
In the meantime, some locals on the condition of anonymity said that the Taliban fighters had captured the headquarters of Tagab, Kishim, Tashkan, and Shahr-e-Buzarg districts of Badakhshan over the past 24 hours, Xinhua reported.
Afghanistan is witnessing a surge in violence as the Taliban has intensified its offensive against civilians and Afghan defense and security forces.
This comes as foreign forces are withdrawing from the war-torn country.
However, Badakhshan’s provincial government spokesperson Nik Mohammad Nazari in talks with Xinhua has denied the fall of the districts to the Taliban terrorists, saying that the fighting has been continuing.
Following the Taliban’s takeover of many districts across the nation, US intelligence assessments have predicted that the country’s civilian government might fall to the jihadist group within months of US soldiers withdrawing.
(ANI)
