Taliban Storm an Afghan Army Base in Faryab Province, Killing 17 Soldiers

[nadeemkhan110]

(KABUL, Afghanistan) — The Taliban overran a base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers, even as Afghan forces battled the insurgents for the fifth straight day in the eastern provincial capital of Ghazni on Tuesday, trying to flush them out of the city’s outskirts, officials said.

There were fears for the fate of the other troops from the base, known as Camp Chinaya, as the Taliban claimed that dozens had surrendered to them while others were captured in battle.

The attack in the north took place in Faryab province, in the district of Ghormach, according to the spokesman for the defense ministry, Ghafoor Ahmad Jawed. Along with the 17 troops killed, at least 19 soldiers were wounded, he said.

The Taliban had besieged the base, which housed about 140 Afghan troops, for three days before the massive push on it late on Monday night, said the local provincial council chief, Mohammad Tahir Rahmani.

Rahmani said the base fell to the Taliban after the soldiers, who had resisted the three-day onslaught, failed to get any reinforcements and ran out of ammunition, food and water. He said 43 troops were killed and wounded in the attack but didn’t give a breakdown.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, saying 57 Afghan soldiers had surrendered to the Taliban while 17 others were captured in battle. He said eight military Humvees were also seized.

Meanwhile, Afghan security forces on Tuesday pushed back the Taliban from Ghazni, the provincial capital of a province with the same name, and were trying to flush the insurgents from the city’s outskirts.

The developments came on the fifth day after a massive Taliban attack on Ghazni. Hundreds of people have fled the fighting in the city, which has so far killed about 100 members of the Afghan security forces and at least 20 civilians.


Nasart Rahimi, a deputy spokesman at the Interior Ministry, said security forces were searching every inch of Ghazni for remaining Taliban fighters on Tuesday.

Military helicopters were supporting the ground forces’ operations in Ghazni, said Abdul Karim Arghandiwal, an army media officer in southeastern Afghanistan.

Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, denied the insurgents have been routed from Ghazni and said sporadic gunbattles were still ongoing.

The Taliban’s multipronged assault on the strategic city of Ghazni, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the capital, Kabul, began Friday. The insurgents overwhelmed the city’s defenses, pushed deep into Ghazni and captured several parts of it in a major show of force.

The United States has carried out airstrikes and sent military advisers to aid Afghan forces in the city of 270,000 people.

The fall of Ghazni, which is the capital of the province of the same name, would be an important victory for the Taliban, cutting Highway One, a key route linking Kabul to the southern provinces, the insurgents’ traditional heartland.

The Taliban also destroyed a telecommunications tower on Ghazni’s outskirts, cutting off landline and cellphone links to the city.

The fighting brought civilian life in the city to a standstill, and also severely damaged Ghazni’s historic neighborhoods and cultural treasures.

In recent months, the Taliban have seized several districts across Afghanistan, staging near-daily attacks on security forces, but they have been unable to capture and hold urban areas.

The U.S. and NATO formally concluded their combat mission in Afghanistan at the end of 2014, but have since then repeatedly come to the aid of Afghan forces as they struggle to combat the resurgent Taliban
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[Sugarcane]

Rahmani said the base fell to the Taliban after the soldiers, who had resisted the three-day onslaught, failed to get any reinforcements and ran out of ammunition, food and water

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[BHarwana]

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The attack are happening in multiple cities reinforcements are not coming. Kabul govt is too much stretched.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

RIP to afghan soldiers. What was U.S.A and NATO forces doing there. I don't think they were serious to root out taliban.

 

[nadeemkhan110]

Guys what is happening in our neighborhood and where is US and Nato Forces

Dozens Of Commandos ‘Missing’ In Ghazni’s Ajristan District
Sources told TOLOnews on Monday that almost 100 Afghan National Army Commandos have gone missing in Ajristan district in Ghazni over the past two days.

Reports indicate that many of these commandos have been killed in the district and many more are still missing.

However, the Afghan Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami rejected the claims and said at a press conference on Monday afternoon that about 50 commandos had been in the area and have been accounted for.

He said so far 35 have retreated to Daikundi and the rest are on their way to the neighboring province.

But contradictory reports continue to emerge.

Afghan Interior Minister Wais Ahmad Barmak also addressed Monday’s press conference with the defense minister and confirmed that nearly 100 police force members have been killed in different parts of the country in the last four days.
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In 'a catastrophe,' Taliban fighters kill more than 200 Afghan defenders .

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Afghan Officials Confirm Troops Surrender Faryab Base to Taliban

 

[gangsta_rap]

On twitter Afghans are blaming Pakistan for it all loooooool

saying how Hafiz Saeed recruited all the 'Panjabis' for this offensive.

 

[hussain0216]

On twitter Afghans are blaming Pakistan for it all loooooool

saying how Hafiz Saeed recruited all the 'Panjabis' for this offensive.

Well done Hafeez Saeed

 

[Flash_Ninja]

Guys what is happening in our neighborhood and where is US and Nato Forces

The hypocrites switched to a defensive policy years ago, meaning that while ANA are getting blown up left and right around them they will happily sit and observe from their military bases.

Just watch, in a few years when Kabul is overrun, they will legitimise the Taliban as the government and declare it mission accomplished.

 

[ziaulislam]

The hypocrites switched to a defensive policy years ago, meaning that while ANA are getting blown up left and right around them they will happily sit and observe from their military bases.

Just watch, in a few years when Kabul is overrun, they will legitimise the Taliban as the government and declare it mission accomplished.

This isnt the 1980s. Usa will simply carpet bomb the Taliban ...overtime its us air power otherwise they would have overrun Afghanistan

 

[Pakistansdefender]

About 300 casualties in last 4 days.
Major chunk is afghan army.
With this rate there is not going to be any afghan army left.
Afghanistan is the kind of the mess which no one even cares.

 

[Zibago]

This isnt the 1980s. Usa will simply carpet bomb the Taliban ...overtime its us air power otherwise they would have overrun Afghanistan

Not our problem we should secure and seal pur border what happens in Afghanistan is not our problem

 

[ziaulislam]

Not our problem we should secure and seal pur border what happens in Afghanistan is not our problem

true...but keeping 4 million refugees and countering full blown drug trade is

 

[Flash_Ninja]

This isnt the 1980s. Usa will simply carpet bomb the Taliban ...overtime its us air power otherwise they would have overrun Afghanistan

Recently I've been looking up the Vietnam War, and from what I can see there are a lot of parallels between the Viet Cong, and the Taliban.

Forget the 80's, there are lessons they still haven't learnt from the 50's/60s.

 

[pzfz]

This isnt the 1980s. Usa will simply carpet bomb the Taliban ...overtime its us air power otherwise they would have overrun Afghanistan

air power cannot hold ground. That's why foreigners need ground support troops in the form of isaf and ana. Taliban aren't playing for formal control. Steady proxy control where they're the government in all but name, and then eventually...