{"id":77462,"date":"2021-08-09T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=77462"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:54:59","slug":"taliban-terrorists-control-the-capitals-of-five-afghan-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/77462-taliban-terrorists-control-the-capitals-of-five-afghan-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban terrorists control the capitals of five Afghan states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f9_\u06f0\u06f9-\u06f5\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban terrorist movement is now in control of five capitals of the 34 Afghan provinces after capturing three of them the previous day, including the city of Kunduz, in a major attack that the army seems unable to stop.<br>After fierce fighting, the rebels captured Kunduz, which they had besieged for a few weeks, and then took Sari Pul and Talqan, the capitals of the two provinces in the south and east of Kunduz.<br>Zabihullah Hamidi, a resident of Takhar province&#8217;s capital, Talqan, told AFP that the violence started in the morning and the Taliban ended up taking control of the city &#8220;without much fighting&#8221;, and that officials and security forces fled the city.<br>A security official confirmed that Afghan forces and local leaders had fled to a nearby area.<br>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed the movement&#8217;s control of Talqan, referring to the &#8220;return of security&#8221; to it and to Kunduz and Sari Pul, which fell to the movement in the morning.<br>An AFP correspondent in Kunduz noted that the Taliban had taken control of all the main buildings in the city.<br>This city of about 300,000 people, which was occupied twice by the rebels in recent years, in 2015 and 2016, is a strategic crossroads in northern Afghanistan between Kabul and Tajikistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban terrorist movement is now in control of five capitals of the 34 Afghan provinces after capturing three of them the previous day, including the city of Kunduz, in a major attack that the army seems unable to stop.After fierce fighting, the rebels captured Kunduz, which they had besieged for a few weeks, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":77599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,31],"tags":[1998,44,516],"class_list":["post-77462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islam","category-news","tag-afghan","tag-taliban","tag-terrorists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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