A new video released by the Afghan Taliban shows the triumphant Taliban fighters taking control of a military base in the Tangi Dara valley, which was until recently under the control of U.S. and NATO troops, in Afghanistan's Maidan-Wardak province.
The video - "Fateh [Victory] Caravan" - was released on the jihadist internet forum Shumoukh Al-Islam. A triumphant Taliban commander, who has not been identified, makes this statement after the victory:
"On behalf of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, I congratulate the whole Islamic world. Insha Allah (God willing) we are standing at the doorsteps of the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate and will soon free Afghanistan from the U.S.-led forces.
"The Caliphate will soon be established in Afghanistan as well as in Palestine, Lebanon, Somalia, Chechnya and elsewhere in the Islamic world. They (Mujahideen in other states) and we (Afghan Mujahideen) are waiting for the enforcement of Islamic Caliphate on the whole land of God."
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