Original Title: U.S. forces suspected of dispatching a B-52 air strike against the Taliban to blow up a school in Afghanistan in the middle of the night
Haiwai.com, August 9th. According to a report by the Afghan “Dawn” on the 8th, conflicts continue in the Rashkar Gah region, the capital of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The United States recently launched air strikes against the Taliban, in which a clinic and a school were destroyed. .
According to reports, live video showed that a school and a government-run clinic in Rashkar Gah were bombed in an air strike. Security personnel of the Afghan government army said that the Taliban are hiding in these two areas, and the US military launched a fixed-point air strike, possibly using B-52 bombers. School security said that the airstrike occurred at 10 o’clock in the night, and the school caught fire after the airstrike.
In the past 10 days, there has been fierce fighting between Afghan government forces and the Taliban in Helmand Province. In the past 48 hours, at least 20 civilians were killed, including women and children. Sputnik News Agency reported that the Taliban stepped up their offensive after the US military began to withdraw from Afghanistan in May. In recent weeks, the conflict in Afghanistan has continued to escalate. The Taliban have occupied rural and border areas and have begun to attack urban areas. (Overseas Net Wang Xiaoyu)
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