Germany rejects calls for its soldiers to return to the war-torn country
Afghan security forces keep watch at a checkpoint in the Guzara district of Herat province, Afghanistan, July 9 2021. Picture: REUTERS/JALIL AHMAD
They had already taken the northern provincial capital of Kunduz and Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province. Afghan commandos had launched a counterattack to try to beat back Taliban fighters who overran Kunduz, with residents fleeing the conflict describing the almost constant sound of gunfire and explosions.
“The atrocities grow higher by the day,” said Hervé Ludovic De Lys, Unicef’s representative in Afghanistan. The US carried out less than a dozen strikes over the weekend as the Taliban overran the provincial capitals, in one instance simply destroying equipment.
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