Taliban Plans Failed in Capturing Key Parts of Afghanistan

A number of military commanders say that most of Taliban plans have faced failure in capturing some parts of the country and its fighters are hopeless for gaining these provinces.

During the graduation ceremony of more than a thousand soldiers in Kabul Training Center, the commanders called on all security forces to take serious steps in suppressing the armed Taliban group.

“The enemy defeated and failed to reach its targets,” said Muhammad Nabi Ahmad Zai, General Director of Ministry of Defense Education Department.

“We assure people that Afghan forces are ready to defend the country under any circumstances,” said Ghulam Farooq Ahmadi, military commander.

The new-fresh troops are also get prepared to face the Taliban group and other insurgent groups and seriously emphasize on eliminating them.

“We will not allow anyone to destroy our country,” said Enayatulhaq, Afghan soldier.

“We will use our experiences in the battlefields and defeat the enemy,” said another soldier, Abdul Ghani.

Taliban militants ambushed and killed around 100 Afghan police and soldiers earlier this week as they tried to retreat, the heaviest losses suffered by government forces during months of fierce clashes near the capital of southern Helmand province.

Dozens of Afghan police and soldiers were cut down as they withdrew from their positions in Chah-e-Anjir, about 12 km outside the city of Lashkar Gah, having been surrounded and besieged for days.

Afghan officials say security forces are losing as many as 5,000 people each month through casualties and desertion, while only about 3,000 new soldiers and police are recruited over the same period.

With the Taliban on the offensive in several parts of Afghanistan, many new recruits are deployed to the front lines with only a few weeks of training, putting extra burden on elite special forces to do much of the fighting.