Taliban take multiple cities within 24 hours
Taliban fighters swept into the capital of another Afghan province on Saturday, heightening fears the hard-line Islamist group was tightening its grip on the country as U.S. forces withdraw. Insurgent fighters entered the capital of northern Afghanistan’s Jawzjan province, a provincial lawmaker told the Associated Press. A Taliban spokesperson also told NBC News it had taken control of the city, Sheberghan, less than 24 hours after another capital city fell as provinces throughout the country threatened to collapse in the wake of a rapid Taliban onslaught.
Friday's capture of Zaranj, the heart of Nimroz province in southwest Afghanistan, made it the first provincial capital to fall to the militants since U.S. forces began withdrawing from the country. The militants are conducting an aggressive offensive through the country at a speed that has even surprised some of the fighters themselves.
"The situation is very bad now," said a government official from Nimroz who requested anonymity to protect their own safety. “Taliban have the control of whole city,” she said. "Since last night they have been looking for government people house by house.”
The official said that “everyone is hiding” and people are “not safe.”
As a woman who has worked and fought around 20 years for women rights, for a better society, for equality, for women’s improvement. I can’t accept that Taliban destroy all these achievements.” The official said she feels “abandoned” by the U.S. amid their departure from the war-torn country after two decades of war.
With the group resurgent, a slew of assassinations has struck Afghanistan, mainly targeting prominent women, journalists, judges and others fighting to sustain a liberal way of life in the country.
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