Taliban Begins Its Spring Offensive, Targeting ‘Occupation’ Forces
April 28 2017
The Taliban says it has begun its spring offensive in Afghanistan, reports the Voice of America News.
In a formal announcement on Friday, the Taliban said that it had begun Operation Mansour across all 34 Afghan provinces.
“These operations will involve conventional attacks, guerrilla warfare, complex [suicide] attacks, insider attacks and use of [improvised explosive devices] to achieve their objectives,” the statement said.
The operation is named after former Taliban...
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