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The first Afghan provincial capital falls to the Taliban

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The first capital of an entire Afghan province falls in the hands of the Taliban. A statement from the Nimroz (or Nimruz) police force claimed that the provincial capital Zaranj fell to the rioters virtually without a single shot being fired. Even the New York Times calls it a significant "symbolic victory" in which advancing Islamists "faced little resistance." Virtually the army and the police have vanished.

Video footage quickly emerged showing Taliban patrols on city streets, including long lines of US Humvees led by bearded Taliban militants flying the jihad flag, with prisoners "streaming out of the city jail" – as described in The Long War Journal:

Jihadists and other independent sources on social media have posted videos of Taliban fighters patrolling the city. The images also show them controlling the military base, as well as the Zaranj airport. Taliban fighters were photographed outside the governor's compound and the headquarters of the National Security Directorate, Afghanistan's intelligence agency. The prisoners are coming out of the city prison., Undisturbed …

This puts the Taliban in control of an important trade route to Iran and a source of customs revenue in the tune of millions of dollars. National forces are currently struggling to cling to other provincial capitals, including Lashkar Gah in neighboring Helmand province, where US-backed troops are said to be surrounded in the city center. The video below shows the Taliban crossing the provincial capital of Nimruz in American-made Humvees waving their jihad flag:

After all, the Americans have not even bothered to take away their own means. They left them in the bases and are now arming the Taliban troops.

Meanwhile, the Taliban began insurgent attacks inside Kabul, starting with a suicide bombing and a gun attack in Kabul's Green Zone on Wednesday that killed at least eight people. The car bomb attack targeted the home of the incumbent defense minister of Afghanistan

On Friday, a senior official was murdered by gunmen on a popular road. The head of the Government Media and Information Center (GMIC) of Afghanistan, Dawa Khan Menapa, who had also served as a spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, was killed in what the Taliban called an operation to deliver "punishments" against the government backed by the United States. Ortami everything collapses and Chinese and Taliban officials have already met to find a "Modus Vivendi". A bit like the Americans and the Mujahideen did after the fall of the pro-Soviet government. If they succeed, all of Central Asia will be under Russian-Chinese control.

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The article The first Afghan provincial capital falls into the hands of the Taliban comes from ScenariEconomici.it .

This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-prima-capitale-provinciale-afgana-cade-in-mano-ai-talebani/ on Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:58:43 +0000.