Posted on 08/14/2021 12:43:13 PM PDT by Hojczyk
3 hr 1 min ago
Afghan security forces pushing back against Taliban in Mazar-i-Sharif, source says
From CNN's Vasco Cotovio
Afghan security forces have been able to push back a Taliban offensive on Mazar-i-Sharif that started at 4 a.m. local time, according to an Afghan security source with knowledge of the fighting.
According to the source, the Taliban successfully managed to conquer the gates of Afghanistan’s fourth-largest city before being pushed back by Afghan security forces.
They were able to do so again, and now Afghan security forces are advancing, trying to push them out of the city.
The Taliban is attacking the city on three fronts, according to the source.
1 hr 4 min ago
Taliban enter Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, according to reports
Reports from the city of Mazar-i-Sharif – one of just three major cities still in the Afghan government's hands – say the Taliban has now entered the city.
A local journalist told CNN Saturday that the Taliban had freed all prisoners in the city's jail.
According to a source who is with a pro-government militia, Afghan National Army units withdrew from the city without any notice, allowing the Taliban to break through defense lines.
48 min ago
Mazar-i-Sharif, the most important city in the north of Afghanistan, has fallen to the Taliban after government forces suddenly left the city and headed toward the Uzbekistan border, according to sources in the city.
In an audio message shared with members of the media on Saturday, Mohammad Anwar Mohammadi, deputy commander of the Mazar special operations unit, announced that the Taliban had taken control of the city, adding that military units are currently at the border with Uzbekistan waiting for permission to enter.
only two major cities — Kabul and Jalalabad — remain in the government'
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Warm up the helicopters.
We should be able to recognize the equipment. We bought it !
Hopefully the Afghan regualrs are motivated and large enough now to rout them
Why didn’t they do more for twenty years?
The Taliban control all but 3 provinces, and the State Department is begging the Taliban to let the embassy staff fly out of Kabul’s airport before they take the city. It’s over.
It’s going to be a bloodbath against the Afghan govt and especially police and military.
They will threaten the military commanders with public decapitation unless they give them the records of everybody in the Afghan militia and army.
Bloodbath coming...
Why are you giving money to CNN?
...and then they’ll decapitate them.
Agreed. I expect the blood bath will be along the lines of Nanking, China in 1938.
Bin Laden absolutely overachieved in his goals and would never dream that on 9/11/21 the Taliban would be victorious against the Americans and the DNC would be victorious against the Republic for which it stands.
Joe’s only concern is who to keep sending money to? The “Big Guys” in DC get their laundered cut you know.
What no covid travel restrictions?
Air strikes south of Kabul. Marines on the ground. ANA clogging up road and bridge into Uzbekistan. ISIS remnants from around globe pouring into Pockeestan....what a mess.
The people of Afghanistan didn’t want freedom. They do not mind the subjugation of islam.
It’s going to be interesting to see what the Biteme supporters think when China makes a move on Taiwan.
A goat in every drive way.
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