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Taliban video shows fighters on captured Afghan base in Baghlan
The Taliban released video of the aftermath of its fighters overrunning the Allahuddin military base in Baghlan-e Markazi district, Baghlan province. The Taliban seized control of the base on Aug. 14, even as its forces were engaged in a battle over the provincial capital of Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan and was fighting on many other fronts.
Taliban fighters loiter on the Allahuddin military base in Baghlan-e Markazi district, which it overran last week. Note how casual the Taliban fighters are, walking around in broad daylight. The Taliban killed 45 Afghan security personnel. Video edited to not show bodies of ANSDF pic.twitter.com/z5C4vRao09
— Bill Roggio (@billroggio) August 23, 2018
At least 36 Afghan National Army soldiers and nine Afghan Local Policemen were killed in the attack. The Taliban surrounded the base and besieged the Afghan security personnel before storming it in a nightime assault. [See LWJ report, Taliban overruns another base in north as it withdraws from Ghazni City.]
The video was released today on Voice of Jihad, the Taliban’s official website. Like many other similar Taliban videos that show the aftermath of successful assaults on military bases and outposts, the Taliban fighters are seen walking throughout the base in broad daylight, without fear of being targeted by Afghan or Resolute Support aircraft. Scores of heavily armed Taliban fighters casually walked around the compound or stood still. Taliban fighters displayed the military vehicles, heavy weapons, small arms, and ammunition looted during the raid. Additionally, the Taliban filmed the bodies of Afghan security personnel who were killed (LWJ has edited these images out of the videos).
Taliban fighters display the weapons captured after they overran the Allahuddin military base in Baghlan-e Markazi district, Baghlan province, last week. 45 Afghan security personnel were killed during the assault. Video edited to not show bodies of ANSDF. pic.twitter.com/KNm9LwEwfK
— Bill Roggio (@billroggio) August 23, 2018
The attack on the Allahuddin military base garnered far less attention than a similar assault by the Taliban on a base in Faryab province. At least 43 soldiers were killed and 17 more were captured in that attack, and the remaining 40 troops stationed there surrendered to the Taliban after the Afghan military failed to send supplies and reinforcements.
Attacks on military bases such as the ones in Faryab and Baghlan have become all too common in Afghanistan. Taliban fighters have not paid a price for loitering and celebrating on captured bases as the Afghan military and Resolute Support are either unwilling or unable to launch airstrikes. [See LWJ report, Analysis: Coalition and Afghan forces must target Taliban after overrunning bases, from 2017.]
Resolute Support, NATO’s command in Afghanistan, is recommending that the Afghan military withdraw from more remote outposts, however this would cede more ground to the Taliban, which in turn leverages these areas to launch attacks on major Afghan population centers.
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