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Return of the Taliban: Insurgents launch massive offensive against Afghan forces

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Post by Guest Tue Aug 26, 2014 7:58 am

The Taliban came at night, slipping into the village of Sarwan Qala and scaling the roofs of its mud-baked homes to fire on police and army checkpoints nearby.


The incursion by hundreds of fighters in June sent residents fleeing to neighbouring hamlets by donkey and on foot. It was the first salvo in a massive, ongoing Taliban offensive against Afghan security forces in south-eastern Afghanistan. The increasingly bloody campaign shows the strength of the insurgents, who have been emboldened by the US military withdrawal from the area in May, local residents and Afghan security forces said. The outcome of the fighting in the Sangin district, which includes Sarwan Qala, will be a bellwether for how Afghanistan’s national police and army might fare after foreign troops leave the country at the end of the year.



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/return-of-the-taliban-insurgents-launch-massive-offensive-against-afghan-forces-9689981.html

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