KABUL as a launching pad for attack against the West, a top American military official said on Thursday.
Brig. Gen. Charles H. Cleveland, Resolute Support mission’s deputy communications chief, told a Pentagon media briefing the troops were authorised to target the Islamic State.
“We believe we really have arguably the best counterterrorism forces on the planet … here in Afghanistan,” Cleveland remarked, calling the counter-Daesh campaign as an aggressive effort.
About 100 counterterrorism strikes were conducted in the first three months of the . . .
