Taliban fighters close in on provincial city in western Afghanistan

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Taliban fighters close in on provincial city in western Afghanistan
Reuters Staff

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters threatened the provincial capital of Farah in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, with fighting underway on the outskirts of the city where government forces were defending two police districts, officials and residents said.

A Farah government official and several residents said security forces were engaged in police districts two and three, around 4 km (2.5 miles) from the city center.

“The Taliban are moving very fast, if the government does not take serious and speedy action, the province is going to collapse to Taliban,” said Hamidullah, a resident of the city reached by telephone.

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Last week, it was posted here, how Sen. Rand Paul said it is time to bring our troops back from Afghanistan. It's certainly a problem and we can't do their fighting ourselves.