Kabul: While the conflict between the military and the Taliban continues in Afghanistan, the terrorist outfit faced heavy casualties after Air Forces targeted their gathering and hideouts in the city of Shebergan on Saturday evening, killing over 500 terrorists and injuring more than 300.
Fawad Aman, an Afghan defence ministry official in a Twitter post informed US Air Force targetter Taliban gatherings B-52 in Shebergan city in Jawzjan province on Saturday evening at 6:30pm. The airstrike lead ti heavy casualties. A large amount of their weapons and ammunition and more than 100s of their vehicles were also destroyed as a result of the airstrikes.
The official earlier today informed that 572 terrorists were killed & 309 others were wounded as a result of ANDSF operations in Nangarhar, Laghman, Ghazni, Paktia, Paktika, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Herat, Farah, Jowzjan,Sar-e Pol, Faryab, Helmand, Nimruz, Takhar, Kunduz, Badakhshan and Kapisa Province during the last 24 hours.
Hours before this attack, the Taliban in its bid to gain dominance in Afghanistan on Saturday managed to capture Sheberghan city in Jawzjan. Sheberghan is the second Afghan provincial capital to fall to the insurgents in less than 24 hours. The city houses notorious warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, who had returned to Afghanistan this week after being in Turkey for medical treatment.
A prior to this, Taliban on Friday took over the Zaranj city in Nimroz. The first provincial capital to be taken by the insurgents fell "without a fight", according to its deputy governor.
The Taliban has been employing violence to make rapid advances across Afghanistan in a bid to gain control after the United States began withdrawing its troops from the country on May 1. The Taliban have been targeting government officials and those they perceive as working for the government or foreign forces.