KABUL - Afghan troops as well as Taliban fighters clashed across an eastern Afghan metropolis on Saturday, equally each side claimed the upper paw inward the latest major confrontation inward the 17-year state of war betwixt U.S.-backed regime forces as well as the country’s largest, almost powerful insurgency. Fighting flared inward 7 neighborhoods of Ghazni, including 3 pockets inside a half-mile of the governor’s residence, said Nasir Faqiri, a fellow member of the provincial council. The almost intense fighting, he said, was nether means close a prison theater belongings Taliban fighters on the southeastern border of the city, lxxx miles southeast of the uppercase Kabul. Nearly 2 days later Taliban fighters struck the metropolis inward a multipronged, nighttime assault that left many of its 143,000 residents cowering inward fear, gloom was setting in, despite official assurances that the province of affairs was nether control. “Morale is sinking. There aren’t plenty soldiers as well as police pull inward the metropolis correct at 1 time to resist,” Mr. Faqiri said.
The Afghan regime as well as the Taliban offered sharply unlike accounts of Saturday’s fighting.
Afghan safety officials as well as their American allies said Afghan soldiers were conducting “clearing operations” inward Ghazni, alongside Afghan regular army spokesman Maj. Mohammad Farooq maxim Afghan safety forces were inward consummate command of the city.
“We’re winning,” said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, adding that his group’s fighters were seeking to rid Ghazni of regime forces as well as include it inward the ninety per centum of the surrounding province he claimed militants already controlled…
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