Taliban firing on Afghan air force around Lashkargah, Helmand.
Month: August 2021
All other areas of Lashkargah, Helmand captured by Taliban. Police HQ, Governor’s office, NDS, and prison remain, but under attack.
Taliban hit the prison with a VBIED.
Lashkargah, Helmand likely to be the first provincial capital to fall to Taliban.
Replacing “because I said so” with “because the experts said so” didn’t amount to much. Lol, experts. This column is finally crumbling.
ANDSF recaptured Nijrab, Kapisa
ANDSF recaptured Nijrab, Kapisa.
Taliban detonate IED near Ismail Khan’s men in Herat city, yell at them to surrender.
Ismail Khan has piqued the interest of the US ambassador in Kabul.
Many progressives who griped about warlords for over the past 20 years have now become their most ardent supporters, almost as if it was never about them being warlords, but about them destroying their precious communist system in the late 70s.
If only communism hadn’t poisoned everything, it would have been such an amazing system, the best thing ever.
Ismail Khan is basically running ANDSF in Herat at this point.
Police chief for Lashkargah, Helmand, district one, surrendered to the Taliban a day or two ago after Taliban threatened his family. Not exactly a headline, since surrenders are commonplace.
It’s now reported that he’s identifying police officers, members of ANDSF, and government employees to the Taliban.
Orphaned in Lashkargah, Helmand
Orphaned in Lashkargah, Helmand.