The Talibanin Afghanistan approached Kabul on Saturday, as they pushed an offensive controlling an estimated two-thirds of the country including the country’s second and third largest cities.
Herat, Lashkar, Gah, Kandahar and Ghazni are the cities under Taliban control. The current attacks taking place in Afghanistan for the past few days are driving the displacement of thousands of people.
According to Save the Children, about 72,000 children are seeking shelter in the streets. On the path of trying to reach safety, the victims of the merciless attacks are wandering in Kabul’s streets in the aims of an end to this humanitarian catastrophe.
According to UN, with a number that exceeds 1,000 many civilians have been killed in the past months. The UN has urged Afghanistan’s neighbors to keep their borders open, to allow Afghan refugees to escape the Taliban.
According to Watson Institute at Brown University, the ongoing illegal conflict has caused over 71,000 civilian casualties and 241,000 deaths. In addition to the latter, hundreds of thousands of Afghans’ lives have been displaced and ethnic cleansing of persecuted minorities like Hazara and Sikh Afghans occurred.
In a constant battle with Taliban who are capturing more than dozen provincial capitals, Afghans’ lives are ditto found confronting an even greater risk due to the battle with COVID-19 they face underneath.
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