Sami Sadat, Commander of Maiwand 215th Corp, message to residents to evacuate areas of Lashkargah, Helmand where Taliban are actively fighting. Taliban control most of the city at this point, so that would be everywhere.
This sort of operation was used to clear Raqqa and Mosul of ISIS in 2017 resulting in thousands of civilian casualties. If they’re serious about this, which I don’t know, AAF/USAF will be involved heavily.
UNAMA, 118 civilians injured and 40 killed within last 24 hours.
Q3 numbers will break the record.
Maiwand 215th Corps tells Lashkargah residents to leave homes. It’s now total war.
Unrestricted warfare.
All other areas of Lashkargah, Helmand captured by Taliban. Police HQ, Governor’s office, NDS, and prison remain, but under attack.
Taliban hit the prison with a VBIED.
Lashkargah, Helmand likely to be the first provincial capital to fall to Taliban.
Replacing “because I said so” with “because the experts said so” didn’t amount to much. Lol, experts. This column is finally crumbling.
Ismail Khan has piqued the interest of the US ambassador in Kabul.
Many progressives who griped about warlords for over the past 20 years have now become their most ardent supporters, almost as if it was never about them being warlords, but about them destroying their precious communist system in the late 70s.
If only communism hadn’t poisoned everything, it would have been such an amazing system, the best thing ever.