The Taliban said Sunday it has entered the final holdout region amid reports of heavy fighting, although anti-Taliban resistance groups denied their claims and said that numerous Taliban terrorists were captured. Opposition groups in the Panjshir valley, led by the son of a former anti-Soviet fighter, have been holding out since the fall of Kabul about three weeks ago to the Taliban. Taliban spokesman Bilal Karimi wrote on Twitter that the police headquarters and district center of Rukhah, adjacent to the provincial capital Bazarak, was captured. Opposition forces have suffered significant casualties and large numbers of prisoners, weapons, and ammunition were captured, he added. In a Twitter post on Saturday, Karimi posted a video that allegedly shows the Taliban entering Panjshir, claiming that the “honorable and dignified people of Panjshir are completely free from the dirty grip of the warring and spy circle of foreigners.” The Epoch Times was not able to verify …
Anti-Taliban Forces Say They’ve Captured Hundreds of Taliban Amid Conflicting Reports
September 5, 2021
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