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Battle of Kunduz. Part of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Situation on 27 September, after the Taliban had pushed ANA forces back to the airport. Controlled by the Afghan National Security Forces. Controlled by Taliban forces and allies. Date. 24 April 2015 – 14 October 2015. (5 months, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Kunduz is the site of the ancient city of Drapsaka. It was a great centre of Buddhist learning and very prosperous during the 3rd century AD. The city used to be called Aornos (Bactrian: οαρνο, romanized: warn) [4] and later Walwalij[5] or Varvaliz, a compound of the old name Warn and Bactrian: λιζο, romanized: liz, lit. 'fortress'.[6]
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22,000 (1860) [6] The Afghan Conquest of Kunduz took place from May to June 1859. The conflict was between the Kunduz Khanate and the Emirate of Afghanistan. The conflict began after Mir Ataliq, the ruler of Kunduz, though nominally under Afghan rule, wished to remain under a degree of high autonomy. Mir Ataliq rejected many of the Afghan ...
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On 5 July, Abdul Hadi Nazari, an Afghan army spokesman said that around 15 Taliban fighters were killed in an Afghan Air Force airstrike targeting Taliban fighters gathering outside the city. [ 27 ] By mid-July, the Taliban were inside four out of nine municipal districts of Kunduz city, battling for control with the government forces. [ 17 ]
Battle. According to the Taliban, a four pronged attack was launched on Kunduz on the morning of 3 October 2016. They later claimed to have seized several checkpoints and the city's roundabout. Afghanistan special forces were flown in from Kabul to assist in securing the city. By the evening the local police chief, Kassim Jangal Bagh, told the ...
The 2009 Kunduz airstrike took place on Friday 4 September 2009 at roughly 2:30 am local time, [3] 7 km (4.3 mi) southwest of Kunduz City, Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan. Responding to a call by German forces, an American F-15E fighter jet struck two fuel tankers, killing over 90 civilians in the attack.