Loading ...3 Major Afghan Cities Besieged By Taliban As Kandahar Airport Hit By Rocket Fire
A correspondent for Al Jazeera on Sunday cited “incredibly tense” fighting surrounding three major cities – Lashkar Gah, Kandahar and Herat – which could fall to the Taliban amid huge military pressure.
“The Taliban has picked up a huge amount of rural territory in the last month and now they are putting the cities under a heap of pressure, and then they can take that leverage back to the negotiating table,” Charlotte Bellis reported from Kabul.
Also on Sunday a major airport in southern Afghanistan has came under Taliban rocket attack. All flights out of the country’s second largest city of Kandahar have been halted after multiple rockets fired by the Taliban scored direct hits on the international airport in the early morning.