Internal attacks on the Afghan army have risen this year: Report Taliban News

According to the U.S. Guard, attacks by the Taliban and infiltrators rose 37 percent and 82 percent, respectively, in the first quarter.

Deadly attacks on the Afghan army have intensified in the first quarter of the year, with internal attacks increasing by 82% as U.S. and NATO troops begin to withdraw from the country after 20 years, according to the U.S. Guard.

In a quarterly report released on Friday, Afghanistan’s Inspector General for Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that attacks on Afghan security forces, mainly by Taliban rebel groups, rose 37% from January-March a year earlier.

Internal attacks, that is, when security forces hit Taliban infiltrators at their level, jumped 82 percent and doubled their casualties, the report read without specifying.

“The complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and defense contractors from Afghanistan will prove that the National Defense and Security Forces of Afghanistan can maintain themselves and defend the government of Afghanistan without US and Coalition military support,” the report says.

Joe Biden President of the United States he announced decision to withdraw US forces in mid-April, postponing the May 1 deadline treatment By Donald Trump and the previous Taliban administration.

The SIGAR report did not specify the number of victims, saying the data are classified.

According to U.S.-led military coalition data, 115 Afghan soldiers were killed and 39 wounded in 31 internal attacks in the first three months of this year.

Since the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent overthrow of the Taliban government in 2001, the activity of armed groups has diminished, then resumed as the conflict dragged on for about 20 years. Now that the withdrawal date is near, U.S. authorities also acknowledge that they are in the dark about the Taliban’s strength.

“By many measures, the Taliban have been in a stronger military position since 2001 than at any other point, even though some of the metrics associated with the conduct of the war have been publicly classified or no longer available,” the report read.

The Afghan government estimated that it controlled only 54 percent of these districts in October 2018, the lowest number recorded since public monitoring began in November 2015. Of the remaining districts, the U.S. government found 34 percent to be in conflict and 12% to be in rebellion. control.

The report states that the Afghan government and especially the Afghan security forces remain dependent on US aid, both in terms of aid and manpower.

“The basic risk that the current and post-peace Afghan government may pose is that it is unsure whether the level of future foreign aid in this period will be sufficient to prevent its downfall,” SIGAR chief John Sopko said.

About 2,500 U.S. members will be joined by another 7,092 U.S.-led coalition forces and 16,832 civilian Pentagon contractors who were in the country in early April.

The report states that some contractors are key to keeping the Afghan army plane flying.

A recent report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Rights denounced fighting across the country, which has displaced only about 90,000 people since the beginning of this year. Since 2012, about 4.8 million people have been displaced from their homes and have not returned to the country of 38 million.

Nearly 50,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in a 20-year war along with more than 2,000 U.S. soldiers – the longest war in the U.S. abroad.