Posted on 05/01/2021 10:12:18 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan attacked and overran a key army base in southeastern Ghazni province Saturday, capturing dozens of soldiers and killing several others.
The latest attack came on a day when the United States and NATO partners formally began withdrawing their militaries from the country after almost 20 years of war.
Two senior provincial council members told VOA the Afghan army had stationed dozens of its forces at the base outside the provincial capital, also named Ghazni, before the pre-dawn insurgent attack.
Local media reports said the ensuing clashes had lasted several hours and killed at least 17 soldiers.
Afghan army chief, Gen. Mohammad Yasin Zia, who is also the acting defense minister, confirmed to reporters in Kabul the fall of the security installation to insurgents, but he shared no further details.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said its fighters had also seized heavy and light weaponry besides capturing 25 army personnel and killing “a number of others.”
Separately, Afghan officials Saturday raised the death toll to at least 30 from an overnight truck bombing in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of eastern Logar province. The powerful blast late Friday injured more than 100 others. Almost all the victims were said to be Afghan civilians. The Taliban did not comment on the attack but Afghan authorities blamed the insurgents for plotting the carnage.
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Haven’t the U.S. & Afghanistan planned their exit better? I pity the soldiers the Taliban captured. They will be tortured and killed.
They’ll overrun the entire country once we leave, but so be it. That land cant be civilized. If the CIA can spare some agents from spying on Trump supporters, maybe they can covertly keep tabs on the terrorist groups there.
We ain’t leaving.
The 20 year experiment has reached enough conclusions to stop it, or sharply reduce our involvement.
Surrounding countries will need to communicate with each other, organize and step up to the challenge in their own way. 20 years ago, I felt very differently about it.
If we stayed there another 20 years the same thing would happen once we left. We have to stop being the world’s policeman. Unless it’s in our national interest.
Good Lord
Maybe our military could use them with a catapult to blanket the enemy with Joe's crap.
“Taliban insurgents.” Interesting verbiage, couching the agenda to hide the truth. “Militants, insurgents” and other superfluous words hiding the real meaning of who they are. How about “enemy?” The US is at war, an interminable war against an ENEMY that cannot be defined. Enough! Call them what they are.
It’ll be like South Vietnam falling to Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
National Interests- like getting the good quality Poppies for plugs addict son to use ???
The Italians have let the quality of the Paramasean snorting cheese drop over the years.
Nuke the s hole. S hole people don’t want to be dragged in to this century.
Want to stop the attacks in Afghanistan?
Bomb the *** out of Northern Pakistan ... the source of all the misery
that was supposed to be **** (four letters) ...
choose any expletive to describe duplicitous backstabbers in “our great ally”, Pakistan
this is all their doing
Good luck Afghans ! It’s been nice knowing ya !
There is no planning this exit better. We made every effort to help the Afghan people over the past two decades, including helping them build, train, and equip a national military to stabilize the country. Those people are untrainable. They’re useless in combat.
We’ve known for 15 years that as soon as we go, the Taliban takes over. We know it now too. President Trump knew it. We’ve gone above and beyond. Afghanistan is not a sustainable nation. It’s a bunch of backward tribes. No sense wasting any more time, money, or American lives there. If terrorist organizations set up shop there again, bomb them. If they rebuild, bomb them again.
We aren’t turning Afghanistan into Canada even if we build a Tim Hortons on every street corner.
FAE air strikes on every known location of Talib leadership. Including in Pak....No quarter
Everyone knew what Pakistan was doing, but nobody could go after the Taliban there because NATO needed the air corridor thru that country to supply the troops in Afghanistan, making them effectively handcuffed
so the attacks never stopped, because the Taliban always had a safe home to operate from
unwinnable when your “ally” is helping the enemy
The only way to fix Afghanistan is with a few well targeted nukes.
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