Afghan forces have improved their performance over last year, a time when they saw a series of setbacks in their struggle against the Taliban, a United States general said Wednesday.
"We are cautiously optimistic about the coming months because overall we do believe that they have some momentum right now," senior spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan Charles Cleveland said via videoconference from Kabul.
"We do believe that the ANDSF has performed better this year than they were performing last year," he said, using the acronym for the Afghan national troops.
Last year concerns that Afghan forces lacked the ability to resist the Taliban led the United States to postpone indefinite withdrawal of its own troops.
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