KABUL – *The Ministry of Defense (MoD) says Afghan forces use drones infour zones of the country to identify and suppress Taliban’s new springfighting tactics.*
“Our drones give the ground forces great information about enemies’tactics,” said Muhammad Radmanish, spokesman of MoD.
According to Radmanish, Taliban’s new spring offensive is not at thebattlefields and civilians are the victims of it.
The Afghan Taliban has recently announced the opening of their 2018 springoffensive, named the “Al Khandaq Jihadi operations”.
According to a Taliban statement, US forces in Afghanistan are the primarytarget of operations, while Afghan government and security forces would besecondary.
The annual spring offensive traditionally marks the start of the so-calledfighting season, though last winter the Taliban continued to battle Afghanand US forces.