The Taliban assassinated the Afghanistan government’s top media official Friday, in addition to capturing one of the country’s provincial capitals, all as the U.S. continues withdrawing its troops from the nation in a process that is 95 percent complete.
A police spokesman in the southern Nimroz province told CNN that the capital, Zaranj, had fallen due to a lack of reinforcements.
“A local source said the Taliban had seized the governor’s office, the police headquarters and an encampment near the Iranian border,” the outlet reported.
The head of the Government Media and Information Centre, Dawa Khan Menapal, was assassinated in Kabul by Taliban attackers who are seeking to weaken President Ashraf Ghani’s government, a democratic republic.The “savage terrorists killed” Menapal during Friday prayers, according to an official in the federal interior ministry.“[Menapal] was a young man who stood like a mountain in the face of enemy propaganda, and who was always a […]
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