Reuters: Taliban announce spring offensive, dismiss peace overtures
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban announced the start of their annual spring offensive on Wednesday, dismissing an offer for peace talks by President Ashraf Ghani but pledging to focus on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The announcement of the Al Khandaq campaign, named after the so-called Battle of the Trench, fought by the Prophet Mohammad to defend the city of Medina in the early days of Islam, marks the symbolic start of the fighting season.
But heavy fighting has been going on in different parts of the country and hundreds of people have been killed and wounded in a series of high profile attacks in Kabul since the beginning of the year, despite Ghani’s offer in February for peace talks “without preconditions”.
The Taliban, in their statement on Wednesday, dismissed the peace overtures as a “conspiracy”.
“Their main effort is to deviate public opinion from the illegitimate foreign occupation of the country, as the Americans have no serious or sincere intentions of bringing the war to an end,” the Taliban said.
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Afghan Taliban Announces Launch Of Spring Offensive -- RFE
Afghan Taliban Launches New Spring Offensive -- VOA
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Just remember it’s spring time for drone operators as well...I hear they are expecting a bountiful hellfire harvest.
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