US May Withdraw From Afghanistan by July as Violence Sweeps the Country
Mil & Intel
By James R. Webb | May 06, 2021
Fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban continued to escalate over the weekend, and reportedly, a Taliban offensive is in the works. In a Tuesday tweet, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said that positions across seven provinces had been targeted. According to Reuters, some of the heaviest fighting was concentrated in Helmand province. US forces turned over the Camp Antonik base in Helmand to the Afghan National Army on Sunday.
“There was a thunderstorm of heavy weapons and blasts in the city and the sound of small arms was like someone was making popcorn,” Mulah Jan, a resident of a suburb of the Helmand provincial capital Lashkar Gah, told Reuters.
The Afghan Ministry of Defense claims to have killed 181 terrorists and wounded another 87 in fighting across Laghman, Ghazni, Kandahar, Zabul, Herat, Helmand, and Baghlan provinces as of Tuesday.
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