Afghanistan .. Dozens of Taliban were killed in a government raid, and Germany feared for its soldiers

The Afghan Ministry of Defense announced the killing of 26 Taliban fighters, including 3 leaders, during military and security operations in separate areas of Faryab province in the north of the country, while German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp said that her country's soldiers deployed in Afghanistan are facing a greater danger after extending their mission to January. Next January.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Kabul, Yunus Ait Yassin, said that the Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said that a night air raid carried out by government forces on a Taliban site in Faryab targeted a gathering of its fighters, and the hit was direct.

The correspondent added that the government military response comes after two days of a series of operations by the Taliban in Helmand and Herat states, and the movement said that 25 government forces were killed in those operations.

Although the movement did not comment on the government raid, the movement’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted today on Twitter that during the past two weeks, government forces have carried out 52 air strikes, in which 161 civilians were killed, and Mujahid did not speak of deaths among the movement’s fighters.

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On the other hand, the German Minister of Defense said in statements to the newspapers of the German "Deutschland" network that the Taliban is planning to carry out new acts of violence if Western forces remain in Afghanistan beyond the first of next May, which is the date stipulated in the Doha agreement between the United States. And the Taliban to withdraw foreign forces from the country.

Crump explained that it issued orders to intensify preventive measures in coordination with military leaders, stressing that Berlin wants to ensure an orderly withdrawal of German forces from Afghanistan.

It should be noted that Afghanistan has been witnessing for some time an escalation in attacks in various regions of the country, although the Kabul government and the Taliban movement have entered into peace talks since last September, they have not made any tangible progress on the main issues related to ending the war and shaping the country's political future.

The country has been suffering from a war since 2001, when an international military coalition led by Washington overthrew the Taliban rule, due to its association at the time with al-Qaeda, which adopted the September 11 attacks of the same year in the United States.