By Samim Faramarz
Charles Cleveland, a spokesperson for the Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan, has warned that the war will intensify next fighting season as the Taliban have already started preparing for it.
“The Taliban’s public statements that they are going to reduce the civilian casualty toll and protect infrastructure - the facts on the ground dispute that and the facts on the ground highlight that they just indiscriminately (carry out) violence against civilians and Afghans,” he said.
According to RS, out of 98 foreign terrorist groups around the world, 20 of them are active along the Afghanistan-Pakistan defacto border and that 13 international terrorist groups are active in the country.
RS statistics show that the number of Daesh fighters decreased to 1,000 of which 700 are in Nangarhar province and the rest in Kunar province.
Cleveland said that Daesh controlled 11 districts at the start of 2016 but are now active in only three districts.
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