29 April 2017

News Story: Taliban Launches Its Summer Offensive

The Taliban on Friday officially announced its launch of this year’s fighting season and said its “Mansouri Operation will differ from previous ones in nature and will be conducted with a twin-tracked political and military approach.”
  
The group said in a statement that politically they will pay attention to establishing mechanisms for social justice and development and that “apparatus will be set up to help those deceived by the enemy.”

On the military front, the Taliban said in areas where they do not have full control the “enemy will be targeted, harassed, killed or captured until they are compelled to abandon their few remaining posts.”

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