In a city besieged by the Taliban, Afghan military advances disappear with forces stretched thin
7/25/21
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from The Washington Post,
7/22/21:
For weeks, the Afghan military has struggled to hold provincial capitals such as Kunduz after losing huge swaths of the country’s rural territory in a surge of Taliban attacks that came as U.S. forces withdrew and U.S. air support dropped. The Afghan air force can only provide a fraction of the coverage American warplanes once gave, so Afghan ground forces are used to fill the void.
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