Pentagon downplays new Taliban attacks
Afghan security officials check people at a check point in Behsood. Violence surged in Afghanistan just days after the US agreement was signed, with the Taliban ending a partial truce and resuming fighting with Afghan government troops. – EPA pic, March 5, 2020.
THE Pentagon yesterday played down the gravity of new Taliban attack in Afghanistan that cast doubts on a four-day old peace deal between the insurgent group and the United States. Since the signing in Doha on Saturday, the militants have ramped up violence against Afghan forces, ending a partial truce and casting a pall over peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban, due to begin on March 10.
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