- 2 August 2021
#Afghan forces battled Monday to stop a first major city from falling to the #Taliban following weekend offensives by the insurgents on urban centres in a sharp escalation. Taliban fighters assaulted at least three provincial capitals overnight -- Lashkar Gah, Kandahar and Herat -- after a weekend of heavy #fighting that saw thousands of civilians flee the advancing militants. FRANCE 24's Franz Marty tells us more.
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north, and China to the northeast. Wikipedia Capital: Kabul Trending Population: 38.04 million (2019) World Bank
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