Qualla: Battle of Lashkargah https://qualla.com/battle-of-lashkargah en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Lashkargah https://qualla.com/battle-of-lashkargah Battle of Lashkargah: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lashkargah/ By the time the last government helicopter lifted off from the governor's residence in Lashkargah on the night of August 12, 2021, the soldiers still on the ground already knew no one was coming back for them. Some surrendered. Others melted into the civilian population of a city they had spent two weeks trying to hold. The fall of Lashkargah -- capital of Helmand Province, the bloodiest theater of America's longest war -- was not the first provincial capital the Taliban captured that summer, but it carried a symbolic weight that rippled far beyond southern Afghanistan. Helmand's poppy fields had fueled the insurgency for years. Its dusty roads had claimed the lives of hundreds of British, American, and Afghan soldiers. And now its capital had fallen in barely a fortnight.

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/m/t/g/battle-of-lashkargah-wp/tmtg-battle-of-lashkargah-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lashkargah: A City Already on the Edge https://qualla.com/battle-of-lashkargah/ Lashkargah had been under pressure long before July 2021. The Taliban had attacked the city in October 2020, and although the provincial governor declared that assault repulsed, clashes persisted around the outskirts through the spring of 2021. By early June, nearly 700 attacks h...

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