Taliban Capture Villages
It didn't take them too long to put the prisoners they released to good use.
Taliban fighters have taken control of 10 villages in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province in Afghanistan, and have said they plan to march towards Kandahar city.
Mohammad Farooq, a government official in Arghandab, said on Monday that around 500 Taliban fighters moved into the area and took over the villages.
Something about that area twigged a memory, so I went through the archives and noticed that Canadian troops made a major push to get the Taliban out of that area back in October, though they failed to truly destroy the force.
Odds are that Nato can and will push the Taliban back out again. Given the proximity of the region to Khandahar, they have little choice but to do so or face losing even more credibility with the population. Not that it is likely to change anything.
