The inevitable finally happened – the Taliban are now ruling Afghanistan again. After a bitter struggle for control of the country following the withdrawal of US troops, the Taliban are now on the up Escape was forced. A clip shows Taliban fighters entering the palace of a notorious Afghan strongman in Balkh province.
The video shows armed militants
Relax on gilded furniture and admire possessions in the magnificent house of the military leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, according to the Saudi Arabia-based news channel Al Arabiya.
Dostum, a U.S. ally and former Afghan vice president, is one of two notoriously strong men in the region who fled the Taliban’s advance across the border into Uzbekistan on Saturday.
Atta Mohammad Noor, governor of Balkh province and a second well-known strong man, also left the province with Dostum, reported Reuters.
“You will never escape. They are all killed. I will make northern Afghanistan the Taliban’s cemetery, ”Dostum is said to have sworn.
On Sunday the Taliban captured Jalalabad, the last major city besides Kabul still held by the country’s central government.
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