The Taliban forced the six-vehicle convoy to a halt, then got into the cars and drove them and the activists to an unknown location, a provincial police spokesman said
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The Taliban ambushed a peace convoy in western Afghanistan and abducted 26 activists, members of a peace movement, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
According to Mohib, a police operation is underway to locate and free the activists whose convoy was going village-to-village to rally for peace.However, Bismillah Watandost of the People’s Peace Movement of Afghanistan, to which the activists belong, said that 27 of their members were abducted by the Taliban in the Farah assault. The different figures could not immediately be reconciled.
The Taliban today hold sway or control practically half of Afghanistan and are at their strongest since the 2001 U.S.-invasion. They continue to stage near-daily attacks targeting Afghan and U.S. forces, as well as government officials – even as they hold peace talks with a U.S. envoy tasked with negotiating an end to the 18-year conflict, America’s longest war.
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