Officials in Afghanistan have recaptured government buildings during a city which was attacked by the Taliban, consistent with Reuters.
On Wednesday, the Taliban entered Qala-e-Naw, the primary direct attack on a capital since Washington began coitus interruptus its last troops.
Air strikes were used and Special Forces deployed to push the fighters back, Reuters said.
The Taliban has been making gains because the US and allies pull out.
“The enemy suffered heavy casualties and now we are advancing and driving the enemy out,” Special Forces commander Sayed Nezami said, consistent with Reuters.
A spokesperson from the Ministry of Interior Affairs claimed said the town within the north of the country had been cleared of Taliban fighters which it had been now fully under the control of Afghan security forces, consistent with a report by the Khaama Press press agency .
A report by Tolo also quoted the city’s provincial governor as saying that the Taliban had been “pushed back from several parts of the city”.
The overwhelming majority of remaining foreign forces in Afghanistan have left before an 11 September deadline, leaving the Afghan military completely responsible of national security.
‘Driving the enemy out’
On Wednesday, Taliban troops had briefly entered the town .
Local sources told the BBC the Taliban gained access to the city’s prison and freed about 400 inmates, including quite 100 of its own fighters.
image captionGovernment officials say their forces are fighting back in Qala-e-Naw
But he denied reports the town had fallen to the Taliban, and said Afghan troops were defending it. The governor told Reuters the militants attacked the town from three directions within the morning.
Security forces later administered air strikes to clear militants from Qala-e-Naw, in north western Badghis province, officials said, and Special Forces were wont to remove insurgents from the govt buildings that they had briefly occupied.
Under a affect the Taliban, the US and its Nato allies agreed to withdraw all troops reciprocally for a commitment by the militants that they’re going to prevent extremist groups from operating in areas they control.
But the Taliban didn’t comply with stop fighting Afghan forces, whose ability to carry off the insurgents is being questioned.
The secretary of state of Iran, which shares a border with Afghanistan, said the US had failed in Afghanistan and its presence had caused major damage to the country. Mohammad Javad Zarif was speaking in Tehran during a gathering between an Afghan delegation and representatives of the Taliban.
President Ashraf Ghani insists that Afghan security forces are fully capable of keeping insurgents cornered , but quite 1,000 Afghan troops have fled over the border to Tajikistan in recent days, and there have also been reports of more soldiers seeking refuge in Pakistan and Uzbekistan to flee the fighting.
Earlier within the week, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the BBC that the group wasn’t liable for the recent increase in violence. He insisted that a lot of districts had fallen to the Taliban through mediation after Afghan soldiers refused to fight.