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| Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad Under U.S. Bombing Thursday |
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THU, OCT 18, 2001
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The U.S.-led forces launched a new wave of airstrikes against Afghanistan Thursday, according to news reports from Afghanistan.
Early morning strikes rained heavy bombs on major Afghan cities including Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad.
Eyewitnesses said military positions of the ruling Taliban in northern Kabul, the capital, were almost completely destroyed while a huge fire blazed near the city airport.
In Kandahar, where Wednesday's bombing was described as especially ferocious, Taliban officials claimed some 20 civilians had been killed, including an entire family who were wiped out as they tried to flee the city in a truck. Kandahar -- stronghold of the Taliban -- is the main site of its training camps and institutions.
At the same time, the opposition Northern Alliance that controls large port in the north of the country, said it had advanced to within some five miles of Taliban-controlled strategic city Mazar-e-Sharif. "We are poised to control the city anytime," its military official was quoted as saying.
The U.S.-led military campaign has been continuing since October 7 against Osama bin Laden and his Taliban protectors in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden has been accused of masterminding the September 11 terror strikes on New York and Washington which left more than 5,700 dead and missing.
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