Pennsylvania Senate authorized Arizona style ballot audit.
Month: July 2021
Clashes in Spin Boldak, Kandahar, the border with Pakistan.
There are unconfirmed reports that the Taliban have taken control of the border crossing. Taliban want to control all border crossings to cut off customs revenue to Kabul.
Some big name Afghan politicians are going to hold talks with the Taliban in Doha by the end of this week, including names like Karzai, Mohaqiq, Dostum, and Gulbuddin. Sounds serious, maybe something will come from it this time, maybe not.
War in Afghanistan map for July 12, 2021.
Taliban have taken more districts in Kandahar, Helmand, and Parwan provinces, and have begun to focus on Ghor and Bamyan provinces. They’ve also started to capture districts in some of the cities like Qala-e-Naw, Ghazni, Kandahar, and others.
The Afghan government’s strategy seems to be to wait for the Taliban to tire themselves out.
Previous map.
https://www.methylated.net/2021/07/09/war-in-afghanistan-map-for-july-8-2021/
Taliban captured a command post in Sayghan, Bamyan, not sure if they captured the district, likely not yet if they’re still focusing on command posts.
This is the first video I’ve posted for Bamyan and the first one showing Hazara Taliban, i.e. Afghans of predominantly Turkic and Mongol descent. I also kept it in vertical format because I wanted to do the landscape some justice.
Mother of six lost her husband, who was out selling potatoes, to the civil war in Kandahar, the provincial capital.
Taliban took out UH-60 Black Hawk(s) at Kunduz Air Base.
The Taliban claimed they took out two Black Hawks, to which the Afghan Ministry of Defense denied any being taken out, so the Taliban released footage showing at least one (two?) burning.