They all put their hands up and surrendered, and (the Taliban) were just shooting,” he said, adding that the Taliban fighters may have been foreign. The special forces troops “were not fighting. I was hiding in my shop,” the person said. “I was so scared when the Taliban started shooting the commandos. The Red Cross said the bodies of 22 commandos were retrieved after the shootings.TwitterĪnother witness watched the scene play out from a small hole in the wall of his shop. The Red Cross said the bodies of 22 commandos were retrieved after the shootings. Others in the town said the Afghan forces entered with several tanks, but ran out of ammunition after about two hours of fierce fighting with the Taliban.Īnd with the US military drawing down its troops to meet an end-of-August deadline for withdrawal, the Afghan soldiers received no air support as they normally would from the US military. Then they brought them into the middle of the street and shot them all,” the witness said. “The commandos were surrounded by the Taliban. Then gunfire erupts amid cries of “Allahu Akhbar” - “God is great.”Ī witness to the slaughter told CNN the commandos were gunned down in cold blood. The video obtained by CNN shows the Afghan soldiers emerging from a building, after the Taliban called out, “Surrender, commandos, surrender,” in the town of Dawlat Abad in Faryab province, near the Afghanistan border with Turkmenistan, in June. Taliban fighters executed nearly two dozen unarmed members of the Afghan special forces, mowing down the soldiers in a town market after they surrendered when they ran out of ammunition, shocking new video shows. US Colonel blocked busloads of Americans, allies trying to escape Afghanistan: documentary Pompeo says Afghanistan ‘debacle’ could lead to new 9/11-type attack on US Taliban officials nearing gas, wheat deal with Russia DHS let in thousands of Afghan refugees without proper vetting, ‘at least two’ were security risks: watchdog
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