The Taliban earlier this month announced the launch of their ‘spring offensive’ or so called Operation Mansouri, intensifying attacks on security forces and government targets.
The militants captured a number of districts and attacked government facilities in a number of provinces including Faryab, Kudnuz, Baghlan, Ghazni and Uruzgan after the announcing the operation.
However, government forces were able to recapture the fallen districts.
Differences between the government leaders and appointments to government posts on ethnic lines are the reasons behind a . . .









