US military launches strike on Afghan city taken by Taliban, Taliban gunmen fanned out in abounding force Tuesday beyond a key Afghan city-limits they captured the day before, as the U.S. aggressive agitated out an airstrike on Kunduz and President Ashraf Ghani vowed to yield the arctic city-limits aback from the insurgents, advancement his nation to assurance Afghan troops to do the job.
In a televised abode to the nation, Ghani said the aggressive launched a counter-offensive on the city, with aegis armament "retaking government barrio ... and reinforcements, including appropriate armament and commandos are either there or on their way there."
"The adversary has abiding abundant casualties," said Ghani, who apparent his aboriginal ceremony in appointment on Tuesday. He apprenticed his nation to assurance Afghan troops and not accord in to "fear and terror."
Monday's multi-pronged, accommodating Taliban advance on Kunduz took the Afghan authorities and aggressive admiral by surprise. Afterwards a day of angry fighting, the insurgents overran government barrio and hoisted their banderole in the city-limits square.
The abatement of the city-limits of 300,000 citizenry — the aboriginal burghal breadth taken by the Taliban back the 2001 U.S. aggression ousted their administration — was aswell a above setback to Ghani, who has staked his admiral on bringing accord to Afghanistan and gluttonous to draw the Taliban to accord talks.
Taliban gunmen patrolled Kunduz streets on Tuesday, ambience up checkpoints, analytic for government loyalists and sealing off avenue routes for anyone who admired to escape — finer accoutrement the association central the city.
The amount of asleep and blood-soaked in the angry was unclear.
Public Health Ministry agent Wahidullah Mayar said on his Twitter anniversary that Kunduz hospitals accustomed "172 blood-soaked patients and 16 asleep bodies so far."
Doctors Without Borders, the all-embracing charity, said its agony centermost in Kunduz accustomed 129 blood-soaked back aboriginal Monday morning, including 20 women and 39 children. Of the total, nine had died, said Kate Stegeman, an MSF acreage communications manager.
The Taliban issued a statement, attempting to assure Kunduz association that they are safe.
Hours afterwards the fall, humans had streamed out of the city, but by Tuesday morning, anchorage were blocked and some government barrio set on fire, several association told The Associated Press over the phone.
"From this morning, the Taliban accept been ambience up checkpoints in and about the city, searching for the government employees," one citizen said. "Yesterday it was accessible for humans to get out of the city, but today it is too backward because all anchorage are beneath the Taliban control."
A coffer administrator who larboard Kunduz for Kabul backward Monday said the Taliban emptied at atomic two banks in the city-limits of banknote and bedeviled vehicles. All the association batten on action of anonymity, fearing for their safety.
The Taliban controlled Afghanistan from 1996 until they were dislodged by the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Their aphorism was apparent by brutality, with alleged apostates accountable to approximate justice.
The insurgents accept had a abundant attendance in Kunduz back ablution their anniversary summer abhorrent with an advance on the city-limits in April. That apparent the alpha of a attack beyond the north, with attacks appear in contempo canicule in adjoining Takhar province, and alternate attacks on districts about Kunduz city. Admiral say the Taliban accept affiliated with added anarchical groups to addition numbers and blaze power.
The U.S. aggressive agitated out one airstrike alone on Tuesday on the city-limits "in adjustment to annihilate a blackmail to the force," agent U.S. Col. Brian Tribus said.
Neither the U.S. nor NATO troops are believed to accept an operational attendance in the region, admitting the German aggressive ascendancy a above abject in the adjacent city-limits of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Acting Defense Minister Masoom Stankizai told the AP that insurgents, including fighters from China and Central Asia, had taken befalling of the contempo Eid al-Adha anniversary — the busiest division in the city-limits — to access Kunduz and adapt for Monday's assault.
He said Afghan troops aggravating to balance Kunduz on Tuesday were "careful that no civilians accept to be afflicted in the battle."
Security analyst Ali Mohammad Ali declared the Taliban takeover of the city-limits as "a shock but not a surprise, because every arena in Afghanistan is as brittle as Kunduz."
Afghan aegis armament accept been hardly activated this year, afterward the abandonment at the end of 2014 of all-embracing action troops. Army and badge accept suffered huge casualties and their assets accept been advance agilely beyond the country as the Taliban accept taken their action to topple the Kabul government to every bend of the country.
With the abduction of Kunduz, the Taliban accept accomplished a "huge political and advertising victory," said Ali, the analyst.
The Defense Ministry said government armament had already retaken some locations of the city-limits aboriginal Tuesday, including a newly-built badge address and the bastille in Kunduz.
MSF and the All-embracing Red Cross said they had abandoned some of their all-embracing agents from Kunduz. All U.N. agents were abandoned on Monday.
Kunduz is one of the better and wealthiest cities in Afghanistan, and the surrounding province, aswell alleged Kunduz, is one of the country's arch breadbaskets and has affluent mining assets. It lies on a cardinal capital abutting Afghanistan to Pakistan, China and Central Asia.
In a televised abode to the nation, Ghani said the aggressive launched a counter-offensive on the city, with aegis armament "retaking government barrio ... and reinforcements, including appropriate armament and commandos are either there or on their way there."
"The adversary has abiding abundant casualties," said Ghani, who apparent his aboriginal ceremony in appointment on Tuesday. He apprenticed his nation to assurance Afghan troops and not accord in to "fear and terror."
Monday's multi-pronged, accommodating Taliban advance on Kunduz took the Afghan authorities and aggressive admiral by surprise. Afterwards a day of angry fighting, the insurgents overran government barrio and hoisted their banderole in the city-limits square.
The abatement of the city-limits of 300,000 citizenry — the aboriginal burghal breadth taken by the Taliban back the 2001 U.S. aggression ousted their administration — was aswell a above setback to Ghani, who has staked his admiral on bringing accord to Afghanistan and gluttonous to draw the Taliban to accord talks.
Taliban gunmen patrolled Kunduz streets on Tuesday, ambience up checkpoints, analytic for government loyalists and sealing off avenue routes for anyone who admired to escape — finer accoutrement the association central the city.
The amount of asleep and blood-soaked in the angry was unclear.
Public Health Ministry agent Wahidullah Mayar said on his Twitter anniversary that Kunduz hospitals accustomed "172 blood-soaked patients and 16 asleep bodies so far."
Doctors Without Borders, the all-embracing charity, said its agony centermost in Kunduz accustomed 129 blood-soaked back aboriginal Monday morning, including 20 women and 39 children. Of the total, nine had died, said Kate Stegeman, an MSF acreage communications manager.
The Taliban issued a statement, attempting to assure Kunduz association that they are safe.
Hours afterwards the fall, humans had streamed out of the city, but by Tuesday morning, anchorage were blocked and some government barrio set on fire, several association told The Associated Press over the phone.
"From this morning, the Taliban accept been ambience up checkpoints in and about the city, searching for the government employees," one citizen said. "Yesterday it was accessible for humans to get out of the city, but today it is too backward because all anchorage are beneath the Taliban control."
A coffer administrator who larboard Kunduz for Kabul backward Monday said the Taliban emptied at atomic two banks in the city-limits of banknote and bedeviled vehicles. All the association batten on action of anonymity, fearing for their safety.
The Taliban controlled Afghanistan from 1996 until they were dislodged by the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. Their aphorism was apparent by brutality, with alleged apostates accountable to approximate justice.
The insurgents accept had a abundant attendance in Kunduz back ablution their anniversary summer abhorrent with an advance on the city-limits in April. That apparent the alpha of a attack beyond the north, with attacks appear in contempo canicule in adjoining Takhar province, and alternate attacks on districts about Kunduz city. Admiral say the Taliban accept affiliated with added anarchical groups to addition numbers and blaze power.
The U.S. aggressive agitated out one airstrike alone on Tuesday on the city-limits "in adjustment to annihilate a blackmail to the force," agent U.S. Col. Brian Tribus said.
Neither the U.S. nor NATO troops are believed to accept an operational attendance in the region, admitting the German aggressive ascendancy a above abject in the adjacent city-limits of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Acting Defense Minister Masoom Stankizai told the AP that insurgents, including fighters from China and Central Asia, had taken befalling of the contempo Eid al-Adha anniversary — the busiest division in the city-limits — to access Kunduz and adapt for Monday's assault.
He said Afghan troops aggravating to balance Kunduz on Tuesday were "careful that no civilians accept to be afflicted in the battle."
Security analyst Ali Mohammad Ali declared the Taliban takeover of the city-limits as "a shock but not a surprise, because every arena in Afghanistan is as brittle as Kunduz."
Afghan aegis armament accept been hardly activated this year, afterward the abandonment at the end of 2014 of all-embracing action troops. Army and badge accept suffered huge casualties and their assets accept been advance agilely beyond the country as the Taliban accept taken their action to topple the Kabul government to every bend of the country.
With the abduction of Kunduz, the Taliban accept accomplished a "huge political and advertising victory," said Ali, the analyst.
The Defense Ministry said government armament had already retaken some locations of the city-limits aboriginal Tuesday, including a newly-built badge address and the bastille in Kunduz.
MSF and the All-embracing Red Cross said they had abandoned some of their all-embracing agents from Kunduz. All U.N. agents were abandoned on Monday.
Kunduz is one of the better and wealthiest cities in Afghanistan, and the surrounding province, aswell alleged Kunduz, is one of the country's arch breadbaskets and has affluent mining assets. It lies on a cardinal capital abutting Afghanistan to Pakistan, China and Central Asia.
Blogger Comment
Facebook Comment