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Heavy Battles Ongoing In Fifteen Provinces: MoD
These kinds of problems, where there are attacks everywhere, go straight to the top...The Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Monday that currently security forces are fighting insurgents in 15 provinces in Afghanistan. According to the ministry some areas where battles are raging are in areas that have fallen to the Taliban. The MoD said that twenty planned operations are underway in fifteen provinces and commando forces are involved in eighteen special operations in the country. The ministry also said that Taliban insurgents are well equipped in their fight against security forces. "Such problems have been created in the districts where we don't have army troops and police troops are there, the enemy seized the opportunity and at night the enemy comes and seizes the center of the district for one or two hours or even one day," said Dawlat Waziri, the MoD's spokesman. Military analysts believe that the collapse of districts and areas to the Taliban are because security forces are demoralized and exhausted. "Increase in those battles has caused exhaustion which generally undermines the morale," said Mirza Mohammad Yarmand former deputy Interior Minister. Six districts in Helmand have witnessed heavy clashes in recent weeks and parts of these districts have collapsed to the Taliban. Recently, the Taliban took control of areas in Nawa and Garmsir districts of Helmand. "Oppositions are advancing in the war, opponents have the war initiative but unfortunately the government is not organized (in the war) nor does it have experience from past battles," said Attiqullah Amarkhail a military analyst. Parts of Helmand, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Baghlan, Sar-e-Pul, Faryab, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Laghman, Paktiya, Paktika and Uruzgan provinces are all currently witnessing heavy clashes. A shortage of military hardware and the lack of good war management in terms of delivering equipment to security forces on the battle fields is also seen as reasons for the high number of battles. Posted by: badanov 2016-08-16 |
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