KABUL – Afghan Taliban have dramatically increased deadly attacks indifferent parts of the country as the new fighting season arrives.
Recently, Taliban attacked an Afghan military base in Helmand which leftalmost 25 Afghan forces dead. The incident was followed by other deadlyattacks in Samangan and Badghis provinces during the last two weeks.
On Monday, at least 20 Afghan security force members were killed in aTaliban attack in Badghis, in the west of Afghanistan.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, meanwhile, said dozens ofmilitants have been killed in the past 72 hours as the Afghan forces havedoubled the number of their offensive operations.
“Afghan forces have recently increased their offensive operations (againstmilitants) in joint cooperation with the Afghan Army and the Air Force,”Nustrat Rahimi, a spokesman for Ministry of Interior.
This comes just days after the US Special Representative for AfghanistanReconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad wrapped up his 16-day talks with theTaliban in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.
“If Qatar talks don’t reach to a conclusion, war is a must but in differenttactics. It is possible that the Afghan government loses the ability todirectly defend its trenches or provinces of Afghanistan,” said MuqaddamAmin, a military expert.
Reports indicate that dozens of Afghan security force members were takenhostage by the Taliban in Badghis and Samangan provinces.
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“Bala Murghab district was on the verge of collapse and still it remains inthe same position. Government has control only over the districtheadquarters,” said Safia Aimaq, an MP from Badghis.
“Taliban threats are still high on Kunduz-Sher Khan Bandar highway and alsotowards Charkha Ab and city suburbs,” said Safiullah Amiri, Deputy Head ofKunduz Provincial Council.
Sources meanwhile claimed the scale of Taliban’s attacks have increasedseveral times higher than the Afghan security forces.
“We still have not taken the stage from the enemy. The enemy iscontrolling the war and the war is a guerilla war. The enemy can pose harmswherever it wants,” said Attiqullah Amarkhel, a military expert in Kabul.
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