NATO's Resolute Support Mission (RS) has said that the U.S forces have participated in more than 20 percent of special operations in Afghanistan, noting that NATO conducted at least 220 air strikes on insurgents' hideouts and safe havens during the current year.Talking on the impact of foreign air power in the battles, the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) has said that air cooperation by the US forces to their Afghan counterparts has foiled numerous plots by insurgents to takeover some areas across the country.
War against terrorism, backing, advising and training the Afghan security forces are the main duties of U.S forces in Afghanistan within the framework of NATO Resolute Support Mission (RS) in Afghanistan.
"The targeted attacks which are carried out with special concentration in-fact eliminate Taliban's power pole and their strength," said Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the MoI.
Afghan security forces have carried out more than 3,000 anti-terror and anti-Taliban operations since the start of the current year with the foreign forces participating in 20 percent of the special operations.
"With the power of our security and defense forces and with the help of air power support of NATO and US forces we managed to defend our freedom, national sovereignty, territorial integrity and collapse of some areas," said Mohammad Radmanish, deputy spokesman to MOD.
This comes at a time that the embattled Afghan security forces have been battling the Taliban on multiple fronts across the country with the Taliban insurgents infiltrating some key towns.
But, the Afghan forces still remain in defensive positions.‎
"They (security forces) try to be in defensive positions and this itself is a big problem to Afghanistan and the people," MP Raihana Azad said.
The Taliban in recent months focused their offensives on at least 25 provinces of Afghanistan with fifteen provinces still being battlegrounds.