Afghanistan: One area has not yet fallen into the hands of the Taliban – Horror with human limbs on a plane

With formations of Taliban clashed with forces loyal to former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh, in Panjir, north of Kabul, the only area that has not fallen into the hands of Islamist rebels, Al-Alam television network broadcast yesterday, Tuesday.

According to his information, Saleh’s forces recaptured the area of ​​Tsarikar, in the province of Parwan. A strategically important road passes through Tsarikar and the Salang Tunnel, which connects Kabul with Mazar-i-Sharif, the largest city in northern Afghanistan.

An Afghan military source said Abdul Rashid Dostum, a notorious Afghan warlord, had deployed 10,000 of his fighters in Panjir, according to the APE-BPE, citing TASS and AFP.

Afghanistan: Self-proclaimed president

The former vice-president and former head of the intelligence service promises that he will not surrender and yesterday, Tuesday, he declared himself legal president., after the head of state, Ashraf Ghani, left the country on Sunday, as the Taliban entered Kabul.

“According to its Constitution Afghanistan, in the event of the absence, departure, resignation or death of the chairman, the first vice-chairman shall become the interim chairman. I am currently in my country and I am the legitimate interim president. “I call on all leaders to offer their support and consent,” he said in a Twitter post in English yesterday. He called on Afghans to join the “resistance” against the Taliban.

Pictures of the former vice president with Ahmad Massoud – the son of prominent al-Qaeda leader Ahmad Sa Massoud, who was assassinated by al-Qaeda in 2001 as a major source of information for the CIA – were uploaded to social media sites in the Pant Valley. the mountain range of Hindu Kush.

Ahmad Massoud, in an article published this week in the French review La Règle, clarified that he meant to resist the Taliban, to make “his own” the struggle of his father, who had fought both against and against Soviet forces. of the Islamist movement.

The extremely inaccessible Pancir Valley never fell to the Taliban during the civil war in the 1990s; it did not fall to Soviet troops in the previous decade.

Horror with human limbs on a plane

The U.S. Air Force says it is investigating the circumstances under which human limbs were found on the wheel of one of the C-17 aircraft flew from Kabul amid the chaos caused by the Taliban occupation of the city.

The Air Force said in a statement that the plane landed at Kabul airport on Monday, and was surrounded by hundreds of Afghans.

“In the face of a rapidly deteriorating security situation around the aircraft, the C-17 crew decided to depart the aircraft as soon as possible,” the statement said.

Earlier in the day, images and news from Afghanistan surfaced on the internet about an Afghan man who crashed into an aircraft landing system on his way out of Kabul after jumping on wheels to escape the Taliban.