The United States has deemed protecting the sprawling Afghan capital of Kabul the “main effort” of an intensified U.S.-backed offensive following a series of high-profile terrorist assaults at the hands of the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), revealed the top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The Afghan National Army (ANA) would not last more than six months, and the Kabul government would collapse, if the United States were to withdraw its financial and military support, declared Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.
American airstrikes have obliterated more Taliban labs in Afghanistan used to process opium and its deadly heroin derivative, dealing a $4 million blow to the narco-jihadist group’s economic engine, purportedly shows a video released by U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A).
Taliban jihadists “cannot win” under the level of pressure U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy is applying on the terrorist group, declared Gen. John Nicholson, the top commander of American-NATO forces in Afghanistan, this week.
The number of American troops fighting jihadists and training their Afghan counterparts to secure their own country has reached “approximately 14,000,” boosting the overall U.S.-NATO military footprint to more than 20,000, affirmed Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the Director of the Joint Staff (DJS).
The number of U.S.-NATO-led coalition troops primarily fighting the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Afghanistan is expected to reach an estimated 25,000 troops next year, including 16,000 American service members.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy to end the war in Afghanistan is “determined” to pressure the Taliban into reconciliation and a political settlement with the Kabul government by making the jihadists realize they cannot win, declared the top American commander in the war-ravaged country, echoing the State Department and the Pentagon.
Jihadi “sanctuary” Pakistan is “the most influential external actor affecting” stability in Afghanistan and the “outcome” of the U.S.-NATO military mission there, reports the Pentagon as President Donald Trump’s administration considers a tough approach towards Islamabad.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has declined “in size, capability, and ability to hold territory” since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, who allowed the U.S. military to drop the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on the jihadist group, reports the Pentagon.
The most powerful non-nuclear bomb dropped by the U.S. military on an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) stronghold along the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 36 jihadists, according to Afghan officials.
The Kabul government has expressed support for the United States’ call for more foreign troops in Afghanistan as security conditions continue to deteriorate in the war-devastated country, primarily at the hands of the Taliban.
Being a member of the Taliban is not a justification for U.S. troops to attack a terrorist in Afghanistan, even as the terrorist group expands its territorial control across the war-ravaged nation and security conditions continue to deteriorate.
