“Kandahar has been taken under control. The Mujahideen have entered the Martyrs’ Square,” he wrote.
Taliban 12 August captured the city of Ghazni, the capital of the province of the same name, which is located about 130 km southwest of Kabul. Ghazni became the 10th capital captured by the militants. TV channel CNN noted that Ghazni is a strategically important city on the way to Kabul. The capital of Afghanistan is under siege and practically cut off from the rest of the country.
The Afghan government has offered the Taliban a “stake in power” to end the increase in violence, a government source told Al Jazeera TV.
The last time the Taliban captured Kandahar was in 1994, when Mullah Naqibullah surrendered the city without a fight. Kandahar was actually the capital of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, a Sharia state that existed from 1996 to 2001, noted “Kommersant”.
The Taliban intensified their activities in Afghanistan after the start of the withdrawal of US troops. One of the leaders of the political office of the Taliban in Qatar, Shahabuddeen Delaware, said on July 9 that the Taliban already control 85% of the territory of Afghanistan.
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On August 6, militants entered the city Zaranj – the capital of the province of Nimroz on the border with Pakistan. A police spokesman said Nimroz came under Taliban control due to a lack of reinforcements from the Afghan government. August 7 Taliban announced taking control of Sheberghan city – the capital of the northern Afghan province of Jowzjan.
On August 8, it became known about the Taliban take over the city of Kunduz – the capital of the province of the same name in Afghanistan. On the same day, the Taliban announced a seizure capital of the Afghan province of Takhar – Talukan city near Tajikistan.
TOLOnews August 10 reported that the Taliban captured the city of Aybak – the capital of Samangan province in the north of the country, as well as Sari Pul – the capital of the province of the same name.
According to the EU authorities, as of August 10, the Taliban controlled 65% of the territory of Afghanistan… On that day, in the evening, the Taliban captured the city of Puli-Khumri, the capital of the northern province of Baghlan.
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