Though the report followed this up with upbeat talk about President Ashraf Ghani’s attempts to address “challenges” in the military, the ever-worsening situation increasingly makes it seem that the best Ghani can hope for is to slow the rate of collapse of their security forces.
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The report said Afghan forces have demonstrated a will to fight and to learn from their battlefield mistakes. For months, the Afghan forces – occupied with fighting elsewhere – had let the two groups fight each other, Campbell said.
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The semiannual report goes on to state that the “Taliban have remained active in their traditional strongholds, namely in Helmand in the south and Logar and Wardak in the east, and also created a sense of instability for brief periods of time in other parts of the country, such as in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan”.
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Talks between Syria’s government and opposition should begin in early January, the resolution said. A number of states are conducting military campaigns in the Syria against the group.
Many of those who had declared allegiance to IS were “disenfranchised Taliban” from both sides of the border, Campbell said.
From Jan. 1 to November 16, for example, there were 28 high-profile attacks in Kabul, a 27 percent increase over the same period in 2014. Even though the conflict in the Afghanistan is winding down, it still cost the USA over $35 billion in 2015 while another $30 billion was allocated to a Pentagon “slush fund” not directly related to conflict but used to evade legislated budget caps. But the total area under cultivation dropped to 183,000 hectares in 2015, a 19 percent decrease from past year when it hit a record high, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The report cited an increase in extortion and kidnappings by low-level criminal networks.
Campbell told the Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that Afghans supporting ISIS want to set up a regional base in Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern province of Nangarhar, “as the base of the Khorasan province” and then “work their way up into Kunar [province]” northward.
Though the insurgency remains resilient, the Afghan government remains in control of all major population centers and continues to deny the Taliban strategic ground throughout the country, it said. He said there also are indications that these IS supporters in Nangarhar province are trying to consolidate links with Islamic State leadership in Syria and Iraq.
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“We said from the beginning that this was going to be a tough year”, said Col. Michael Lawhorn, spokesman for the USA military coalition.
