...mindless ferocity in a turban...over the past three weeks in eleven provinces of the country.
The assessment indicates that the majority of casualties among the government forces occurred in the north and southeast regions of the country.
The Afghan government does not want to provide an exact detail about the casualties of the government forces, but insists that the Taliban’s casualties "are double" that of casualties among Afghan forces.
Under the US-Taliban peace agreement which was signed in Doha on February 29, the Taliban committed to not stage attacks on the key highways and historic provincial capitals. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
over the recent days, Zabul-Kandahar, Baghlan-Samangan and Kabul-Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
highways have witnessed massive attacks by the Taliban.
"Always there is war going on, our cars are hit the bullets, there is war everywhere, where should we go?" asked Ahmad Manan, a driver on the Samangan-Baghlan highway.
"Over the past two weeks, nearly 100 security force members were killed," said Amruddin Wali, a member of the Kunduz provincial council.
Kunduz is one of the unstable areas which have suffered heavy festivities over the past few months.
Eleven provinces of the country have suffered a massive corpse count in the past three weeks.
"As a result of a mine explosion by the armed opponents, the police commander of Khas district of Uruzgan, the commander of local police and a unit commander of the army were martyred," said Zalgay Ebadi, a front man for Uruzgan's governor.
"Over the past two weeks the armed opponents have increased their attacks on the provincial and district level," said Aminullah Ahmadzai, the commander of Ghor province's police.
It seems that after the signing of the peace deal with the US, the Taliban was not willing to capture strategic areas and instead the group focused on inflicting a massive casualties on Afghan forces.
"The Taliban leaders under the pressure of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Pakistain and the US want to portray themselves as committed to the peace agreement," said Jawed Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i, a military analyst.
The recent waves of violence have also led to a surge in Afghan civilian casualties. Last week, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) expressed alarm over a "rising number of civilian casualties."