Kandahar District Falls Briefly to Taliban

Afghan forces retook a district in Kandahar province that had been captured by the Taliban. The Afghan forces said they had made a tactical decision to withdraw, but the Taliban said it captured the district outright after days of battle. Either way, the former ruling fundamentalists of Afghanistan appear less than beaten.

BBC:

Afghan forces earlier made a tactical withdrawal from Myanishen.

But another district, Ghorak, has fallen to the insurgents, Kandahar’s police chief has told the BBC.

Correspondents say the militants have taken a number of districts over the past couple of years but have managed to keep control of only one.

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