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Taliban kill 22 Afghan commandos attempting to surrender: Report

By Kaelan Deese
Published July 14, 2021 3:59pm ET
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Taliban kill 22 Afghan commandos attempting to surrender: Report
Survivors walk near the site of Friday's landslide that buried Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 4, 2014. As Afghans observed a day of mourning Sunday for the hundreds of people killed in a horrific landslide, authorities tried to help hundreds of families displaced by the torrent of mud that swept through their village. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) | Massoud Hossaini

The Taliban killed 22 Afghan commandos attempting to surrender in June, according to footage and multiple witnesses.

Taliban forces shot the members of an Afghan Special Forces Unit on June 16 in Dawlat Abad located in the Faryab Province close to Afghanistan’s border with Turkmenistan, footage revealed on Tuesday showed.

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