Gen. Bismillah Mohamadi, the acting Defense Minister of Defense in Afghanistan announced on Friday that the popular resistance forces in the northern part of the country clawed three regions from the Taliban.
Mohamadi tweeted that the resistance restored the regions in Baghlan State, claiming that the resistance is still alive.
This tweet came on the backdrop of un-confirmed news floated on the social media platforms about clashes that broke out between the Taliban and locals in Baghlan State in the north of Afghanistan.
Groups of the Taliban arrived in the regions to raid homes of the locals there.
According to activists the locals killed seven armed men, held thirteen others, and seized two armored vehicles with machine guns.
The northern districts of Afghanistan are experiencing now heated confrontations.
On the other hand, US media outlets affirmed that military men fired gas canisters at crowds of Afghans thronged in Kabul International Airport who wish to flee their country after the Taliban seized power there.
The "Wall Street Journal (WSJ)" has quoted Western officials as saying that security forces fired gas canisters and bullets into the air to disperse crowds to allow women and children of the families into three airports.
Eyewitnesses said that teargas was used yesterday and today, Friday, meanwhile crowds are sealing the three gates of Kabul Airport.
The US newspaper did not reveal the nationality of forces stationed in the airport and whether they are Afghan, American, or British. The report of the WSJ indicated that video footage showed military men as they left lounges of the airport. The Afghans and foreigners who want to leave the country must cross checkpoints installed by the Taliban.
The report added that armed men fired bullets into the air to control crowds gathered in the airport, pointing out that these developments came after one day of the Pentagon's declaration that the situation is stable in the airport.
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