The World - News from June 22, 1989
Afghanistan said the 15-week-old guerrilla siege of Jalalabad has ended with a government victory and that troops are pushing the insurgents toward Pakistan. Guerrilla leaders, however, denied that the bloodiest battle in the decade-long war was over, and there was no way to verify either claim. Jalalabad, the capital of Nangahar province and once the country’s fifth-largest city, came under rocket and artillery bombardment march 7, three weeks after Soviet troops left Afghanistan to end their nine-year intervention.
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