The Taliban conquer Kunduz, the main city in northeastern Afghanistan

by time news

Time.news – Kunduz, the largest city in northeastern Afghanistan, has fallen to the Taliban. It is the third provincial capital and the most important Afghan city after Kabul.

The Taliban took control of all key buildings in the city. Kunduz, a city of 370,000 inhabitants, had already fallen into the hands of the Taliban twice, in 2015 and 2016, but in both cases it had been recaptured with the help of US Air Force special forces. The risk now is of a domino effect because the security forces of other districts had withdrawn, giving them to the Taliban, precisely in order to better defend Kunduz as part of a strategy that would aim to protect the most important urban centers.

The third capital to fall

A Sar-e-Pul, another provincial capital in the north-west of the country, “the Taliban have entered the city center” and “the fighting continues in the streets”, reported Aziza Jalis, a deputy.

Kunduz, 300 kilometers north of Kabul and 50 kilometers south of the border with Tajikistan, is the third provincial capital taken by the Taliban since May, when the last phase of the US withdrawal and an insurgent offensive began.

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