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US intensifies airstrikes in southern Afghan
Updated On: 27 July, 2021 11:30 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
The fall of Kandahar would deal a heavy blow to the US-backed government in Kabul, which is trying to impart calm to its citizens as the Taliban has seized swaths of the countryside, but so far failed to take a major city, the report said
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A security personnel stops a vehicle at a check point in Herat, as a night curfew was imposed across 31 of the country’s 34 provinces to curb surging violence unleashed by a sweeping Taliban offensive. Pic/AFP
The United States (US) has stepped up airstrikes in southern Afghanistan amid growing apprehension over a Taliban offensive threatening Kandahar, the country’s second-largest city and spiritual capital of the Taliban movement, Wall Street Journal reported.
The fall of Kandahar would deal a heavy blow to the US-backed government in Kabul, which is trying to impart calm to its citizens as the Taliban has seized swaths of the countryside, but so far failed to take a major city, the report said.
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