Bombs Drop Every Minute, Corpses on the Street

KANDAHAR – Families left their homes in droves, plane bombs rained down on neighborhoods and corpses filled the streets. It was a heartbreaking scene when the Taliban launched their war on the cities Afghanistan over the last weekend.

The battle between the guerrillas Taliban against Afghan government forces begins a bloody new chapter in the country’s long war.

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Residents in the southern city of Lashkar Gah said the Taliban were fighting “street to street” with Afghan security forces and had surrounded the police headquarters and the governor’s office.

“The plane is bombing the city every minute. Every inch of the city has been bombed,” Badshah Khan, a resident of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, told AFP. AFP by phone.

“You can see bodies in the streets. There are bodies of people in the square,” he said, quoted on Monday (2/8/2021).

The government remains in control of Lashkar Gah to this day thanks to a continuous barrage of air strikes, but the future of the provincial capital appeared to be hanging by a thread as wave after wave of rebels entered the city.

Violence has escalated across Afghanistan since early May when the Taliban launched a major offensive across much of the country as the US military and its allies began their latest withdrawal after nearly 20 years of operation.

The Taliban are devouring rural districts at high speed, often without resistance from Afghan government forces.

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