Taliban Vows Three-month Truce if 7,000 Inmates Released, Group Removed from UN Blacklist - Report

By Staff, Agencies

The Taliban terrorist group has been defeating Afghan forces across the country since the American-led forces began to withdraw from the country on 1 May. The group now claims to control nearly 85 percent of Afghanistan.

The Taliban will announce a three-month ceasefire if its 7,000 inmates are released and the terrorist group is removed from a UN terrorism blacklist, the Afghan television channel 1TV News cited Taliban spokesman Nader Naderi as saying.

The announcement came a few days after CNN reported that at least 22 commandos from an Afghan Special Forces unit were executed by Taliban terrorists in the town of Dawlat Abad in Faryab Province on 16 June.

While the incident occurred almost a month ago, graphic video footage of the execution has only been recently made public.

Right now, the Taliban reportedly controls at least 212 districts in Afghanistan, while the Afghan government is in charge of 70 districts in the country. In addition, about 116 districts remain contested, according to a tracker by the “Foundation for Defense of Democracies” Long War Journal.

In April, US President Joe Biden declared that his country would start withdrawing its 2,500 troops from Afghanistan on 1 May, with the aim of being completely out by 11 September.