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“Small guerrilla forces remain in various neighborhoods”.

So here we are all these years later wondering what is to be done.

However, the Taliban claimed that Islamist fighters downed the plane. “We thank God we had no fatalities”, he said.

Good news… should not make us complacent. “The war is ongoing”.

NATO-backed Afghan forces have been battling the Taliban over the control of Kunduz, which the insurgents captured on Monday. Airmen with the security forces squadron frequently deploy around the world for security operations.

He says four Taliban fighters were found hiding in the Kunduz municipality building.

The Pentagon is denying Taliban reports that the terrorist group shot down a U.S. C-130 early Friday morning.

The office of President Ashraf Ghani, who has faced sharp criticism over his handling of the crisis, released a statement Friday condemning alleged Taliban abuses.

Afghan force had been hindered by the slow arrival of reinforcements and the Taliban’s defensive measures, but on Thursday military convoys managed to penetrate into the centre of Kunduz after an overnight counter-offensive.

He acknowledged, however, that the insurgents had not been completely driven from the strategic city of 300,000.

The wounded included 64 children, medical charity Doctors Without Borders said.

Kunduz police chief General Mohammad Qasim Jangal Bagh told the BBC security forces were “now clearing streets of Taliban”. There was no water and electricity, and supplies of food and other basics were yet to come in. The airfield is approximately 80 miles from the capital in Kabul.

Both sides are claiming to be in control of much of the city.

Mansoor is also likely to use the Kunduz operation to push a more populist image of the Taliban, remembered for their extremist interpretation of Islam and brutality under Mullah Omar. A few US officials would like to see a plan that would keep as many as 10,000 troops in Afghanistan indefinitely. Lives and money continued to be squandered on a hopeless task.

“We are searching the lanes of the city and residential houses looking for Taliban militants…”

Mansoor spoke to the AP by telephone from an unknown location.

“I wanted to go ahead and fight, but when we are surrounded, help won’t arrive and you get killed“.

“Our mujahideen have shot down a four-engine USA aircraft in Jalalabad”, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted.

Journalists were invited to travel with Afghan troops into Kunduz on Thursday, but were told later they had to return to Kabul. His remarks were posted on his Twitter account.

Amnesty activists also urged government forces not to conduct reprisal killings as they moved back into the city. “Government forces have received heavy casualties”.

“The multiple credible reports of killings, rapes and other horrors meted out against the city’s residents must prompt the Afghan authorities to do more now to protect civilians, in particular in areas where more fighting appears imminent”.