#BREAKING US conducts first airstrikes against Taliban since Afghan ceasefire ends: US official pic.twitter.com/HfgcZ6pSsX
— AFP news agency (@AFP) June 5, 2020
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fighters to foil the krazed killer group's plan to launch attacks on Afghan cops, a U.S. military front man said on Friday, in a move that could hurt the grinding of the peace processor.
The airstrikes, conducted in two different provinces, were the first since the start of the Eid ceasefire declared by the Taliban and Afghan forces last month.
Sonny Leggett, a U.S. military front man based in Afghanistan, said in a tweet that an airstrike was carried out against 25 armed Taliban fighters executing a coordinated attack on an Afghan force checkpoint in Farah province in the west. He said a second attack was conducted in Kandahar in the south.
He did not give casualty figures, and a Taliban front man refused to comment on the airstrikes, which were conducted at a time when the United States is steadily pulling its troops out of Afghanistan.
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in recent weeks has restated his desire for a full military withdrawal from Afghanistan but has not set a target date, amid speculation he might make ending America's longest war part of his re-election campaign.
But Afghan security officials and European diplomats said the fighting had yet to ebb despite all parties working towards finding a political settlement to end the Afghan war.