Police headquarters falls to Taliban in southern Afghanistan
The Hindu
‘The Taliban has taken the building, with some police officers surrendering to the militants and others retreating to the nearby governor's office that's still held by government forces’
The Taliban captured a police headquarters on August 12 in a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan teetering toward being lost to the insurgents as suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded the area, an official said. Fighting raged in Lashkar Gah, one of Afghanistan's largest cities in the Taliban heartland of Helmand province, where surrounded government forces hoped to hold onto the capital after the militants' weeklong blitz has seen them already seized nine others around the country. Afghan security forces and the government have not responded to repeated requests for comment over the days of fighting. However, President Ashraf Ghani is trying to rally a counteroffensive relying on his country's special forces, the militias of warlords and American airpower ahead of the U.S. and NATO withdraw at the end of the month.More Related News