Hundreds Of Afghan Soldiers Flee Into Tajikistan As Taliban Makes More Gains
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Hundreds Of Afghan Soldiers Flee Into Tajikistan As Taliban Makes More Gains
July 03, 2021
The Tajik Border Service said that more than 300 Afghan soldiers were forced to flee into Tajikistan's Shamsiddin Shohin region. (file photo)
More than 300 Afghan soldiers have crossed into Tajikistan as the Taliban captured more territory in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik Border Service said on July 3.
The retreat is the third time in two weeks that Afghan soldiers have fled into Tajikistan, after the militants took control of several border areas and seized Afghanistan's main border crossing with Tajikistan in June.
The Tajik Border Service said the situation became "complicated" after several villages and a border post in the northwestern part of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province fell to the Taliban,
forcing more than 300 Afghan soldiers to flee into Tajikistan's Shamsiddin Shohin region.
More than 300 Afghan soldiers have crossed into Tajikistan as the Taliban captured more territory in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik Border Service said on July 3.
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