The Taliban have claimed to have captured two more provincial capitals in Afghanistan after capturing Nimroz’s capital Zaranj on Friday. According to the news agency AFP, the Taliban have captured the capitals of four provinces of Afghanistan since Friday. After taking control of much of the country’s rural areas in recent months, the Taliban is now moving rapidly towards the cities.
According to the news agency AFP, the way the Taliban have captured four capitals since Friday has taken Afghanistan’s military forces by surprise. US bombers have struck Taliban positions in Sheberghan.
It is the stronghold of the militia commander Abdul Rashid Dostum of the North. Dostum fighters and government forces have left the city’s central areas and moved to the airport. Dostum had raised the most powerful militia in the northern areas of the country. He fought a long war against the Taliban in the 1990s. Their fighters were also accused of killing thousands of detained people.
At the same time, after the provincial capitals passed into the hands of the Taliban, the government has only said that they will be recaptured. Fawad Aman, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry, has claimed that US bomber B-52s targeted Taliban positions in Sheberghan, the capital of Jowzjan province. Afghan forces are trying to take the city back from the Taliban.
