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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 8, 2021, 10:37 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvXVzQmyHAE
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 9, 2021, 11:51 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/stunning-speed-taliban-victories-ramps-113856912.html
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> Monday saw the Taliban advance on Gardez, the capital of
Paktia province in Afghanistan’s east. Officials also confirmed
to local media outlets that the radical Islamic group had taken
Aybak, the capital of northern Samangan province, as fighters
pressed ahead with a countrywide offensive that has seen a
crushing rout of Afghan government forces in many places.
> ...
> On Friday, the group seized the southwestern city of Zaranj,
the capital of Nimroz province, forcing Afghan government
fighters to flee across the border to Iran. The following day,
the Taliban captured Sheberghan, the capital of Jowzjan province
and home to Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Afghan warlord whose
fighters proved no match for the attackers.
>
> By Sunday, the insurgents had blitzed through wide swaths of
the country’s north — which in the 1990s mounted the strongest
resistance to the Taliban — and taken three more provincial
capitals: Sar-e-Pul, Taloqan and Kunduz, a long-sought-after
prize that the group had briefly seized in 2015 and 2016.
>
> Its stunning string of battlefield successes has given the
Taliban control of the north, the southwest and parts of the
east, setting up the group to make an eventual bid for the
biggest prize of all: the national capital, Kabul.
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 10, 2021, 9:57 pm
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Nothing but good news from these parts recently:
HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/10/taliban-seizes-farah-seventh-provincial-afghan-capital-in-five-days
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> The Taliban has captured two more cities in Afghanistan,
taking the number of provincial capitals the group has seized
since Friday to eight.
>
> Farah city of the eponymous southwestern province and
Pul-e-Khumri of the northern province of Baghlan both fell to
the armed group on Tuesday. Local sources confirmed the capture
of both provincial capitals to Al Jazeera.
> ...
> The capture of Farah also provides another border crossing
into Iran for the group.
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 11, 2021, 5:47 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Os0f8BKHGE
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 12, 2021, 3:45 am
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Double digits!
HTML https://falklandislands.bpositivenow.com/the-taliban-take-the-tenth-capital-of-afghan-province-in-blitz/
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> The Taliban captured a provincial capital near Kabul on
Thursday, the 10th, insurgents have taken more than a week of
fire across Afghanistan as the US and NATO prepare to withdraw
entirely from the country after decades of war.
>
> The militants raised their white printed flags with a famous
Islamic proclamation of faith over the city of Ghazni, just 130
kilometers (80 miles) southwest of Kabul. Sporadic fighting
continued at an intelligence base and at an army facility
outside the city, two local officials told the Associated Press.
> ...
> The loss of Ghazni marks another strategic return for Afghan
government forces. Ghazni is located along the Kabul-Kandahar
highway, a major road that connects the Afghan capital to the
country’s southern provinces. That could complicate supply and
movement for government forces, and even squeeze the capital out
of the south.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgvRYvisojk
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: guest55
Date: August 12, 2021, 9:28 pm
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US is sending 3,000 troops into Afghanistan
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> The Pentagon announced that more than 3,000 US troops will be
deployed to Afghanistan as the Taliban continues to gain ground.
>
> #CNN #News
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaGs0uCQ66w
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 12, 2021, 9:40 pm
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"US is sending 3,000 troops into Afghanistan"
As long as the US troops are there to help evacuate refugees out
of Afghanistan, that is fine.
Meanwhile, faster than anyone imagined:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qn8Bt7YqGc
Also:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-war-afghanistan-taliban-demand-122826723.html
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> Recently, Taliban leaders said Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s
removal is a condition for ending the conflict.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashraf_Ghani#Political_views
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> Ghani is pro-modernist and a fond admirer of former
Afghanistan's progressive King Amanullah Khan[51][52]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanullah_Khan
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> His rule was marked by dramatic political and social change,
attempting to modernize Afghanistan on Western designs
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darul_Aman_Palace
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> The palace is a U-shaped brick building, built in a European
neoclassical style. It has 3 floors with 150 rooms, including a
semi-circular main hall. Its highest point is around 33 m (108
ft) above ground level. There are four domed towers on the roof.
The galleries on the third floor of the southern facade are
decorated with a number of Corinthian columns.
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paghman
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> After King Amanullah Khan and Queen Soraya Tarzi's return from
Europe in 1928, Amanullah brought in foreign experts to redesign
Kabul. At that time, at the entrance of Paghman, they created a
European-style monumental gate similar to but smaller than the
Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, called the Taq-e Zafar
(Persian: طاق ظفر‎
Arch of Victory). Originally a small village at the bottom of
the Hindu Kush, Paghman turned into a holiday retreat with
villas and chalets as well as the summer capital. Its wide
avenues contained fir, poplar and nut trees which flew past the
arch, villas and a golf course. It was a popular place for the
wealthy and the aristocrats to visit.[2]
>
> The new royal gardens were opened to the public under the
proviso—as a matter of reform—that western dress was adopted
there, as in the royal residential areas of nearby Kabul.
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HTML https://smallimg.pngkey.com/png/small/129-1297667_clip-free-stock-collection-of-free-failing-clipart.png
Slaves will admire other slaves. Here is Ghani in his slave
clothes:
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1006100318294245376/txUZ05ZY.jpg
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 13, 2021, 2:21 am
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HTML https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/taliban-advance-afghanistan-capture-lashkar-gah-kandahar-update-1840319-2021-08-13
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> Confirming a claim by the insurgents, a senior Afghan security
source told news agency AFP on Friday that the key southern city
of Lashkar Gah has also been captured.
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/13/afghanistan-taliban-herat-kandahar-kabul-cities-live-updates
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> Taliban fighters took control of Feruz Koh city in
Afghanistan’s western province of Ghor without any fighting,
officials say.
> ...
> The Taliban also captured Qala-e Naw, capital of the western
Badghis province, Al Jazeera’s Ali M Latifi reports.
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 13, 2021, 9:55 pm
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Halfway there!
HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/13/asia/afghanistan-kandahar-falls-taliban-intl-hnk/index.html
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> The Taliban now control half of Afghanistan's provincial
capitals
> ...
> According to CNN analysis they now control 17 of Afghanistan's
34 provincial capitals, all of which have been captured in the
last week.
>
> The group has made territorial gains in the north of the
country, which has traditionally been an anti-Taliban
stronghold. And it now controls towns and territories within 100
kilometers (62 miles) of Kabul, including the capital of Logar
province, which also fell on Friday.
> ...
>
HTML https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2021/08/13/20210812_Taliban_capitals_map_930px.png
> ...
> Elsewhere on Friday, the government lost control of the nearby
capital of Urozgan province, Tarin Kot.
> ...
> Later it also seized Firoz Koh, the provincial capital of Ghor
province in central Afghanistan, a local source told CNN Friday.
>
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A truly impressive week.
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Re: Afghanistan
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 14, 2021, 9:54 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmTd15PNCdc
HTML https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-taliban-f600d6faf28e9c2ccb454ad176987b19
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> The fall of Mazar-e-Sharif, the country’s fourth largest city,
which Afghan forces and two powerful former warlords had pledged
to defend, hands the insurgents control over all of northern
Afghanistan, confining the Western-backed government to the
center and east.
> ...
> The Taliban also captured Paktika province and small Kunar
province, both bordering Pakistan, as well as Faryab province in
the north and the central province of Daykundi, lawmakers from
those areas said Saturday.
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