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KABUL, Afghanistan Taliban insurgents struck targets across Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding scores more, extending a string of attacks in recent weeks that have put Afghans on edge, two months into the term of the new U.S.-backed government.
The most brazen assault began Thursday night, when five Taliban suicide bombers and a group of fighters tried to infiltrate Camp Bastion, an air base in the volatile southern province of Helmand, triggering an intense gun battle that lasted into Friday morning, said Omer Zowak, a spokesman for the provincial governors office. Afghan soldiers repelled the attack, killing at least five Taliban fighters. Two soldiers died and six were wounded in the battle.
The attack was the latest by the Islamist Taliban insurgency targeting figures and centers of authority and influence in recent weeks. British and American forces this year pulled out of Camp Bastion, a British base, and transferred it to the Afghan army. The assault exemplified how the Taliban is trying to seize advantage of a military landscape in which most American and international forces have stopped combat operations and are preparing to withdraw by the end of the year.
The attack also underscored why Afghan commanders have welcomed President Obamas decision to expand the U.S. military role next year from providing advice and training to allowing combat operations against the Taliban if a threat is perceived and also to provide air support to Afghan forces.
Since Afghan President Ashraf Ghani took the oath of office Sept.29, violence by the Taliban has mounted. The growing insecurity threatens to overshadow Ghanis trip to a donor conference in London next week, where he is to meet with U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other foreign officials to raise billions of dollars in aid to develop Afghanistan.
The assault on Camp Bastion was followed Friday by a spate of other attacks across the country, an unusually high volume for a single day, even in Afghanistan. In a separate attack in Helmand province, a suicide bomber drove a truck with explosives into a police post in Nawzad district about 8:30a.m., killing four policemen and wounding five, Zowak said.
In Nangahar province, in the countrys east, an explosion inside a mosque during the Friday prayers, the most important of the week, wounded at least 26, including three with severe injuries, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a provincial spokesman. The explosives were most likely placed in the mosque, in Khogyani district, before the prayers began, he said.
And in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, three fruit sellers and a passerby were wounded when a bomb exploded in a busy market, said Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the governor of Balkh province.
The Taliban said it carried out both attacks in Helmand province but denied involvement in the mosque attack in Nangahar. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the market in Mazar-e Sharif.
The attacks came less than 24 hours after two suicide operations unfolded in the capital, Kabul. On Thursday, a bomber struck a British Embassy vehicle in eastern Kabul, killing six people, including a British citizen, and wounding more than 30. Hours later, three assailants targeted a guesthouse near the offices of an Arlington-based aid agency in an upscale district of the capital, triggering explosions and fierce gun battles. No civilian deaths were reported.
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Afghanistan on edge as Taliban steps up attacks
KABUL, Afghanistan Taliban insurgents struck targets across Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding scores more, extending a string of attacks in recent weeks that have put Afghans on edge, two months into the term of the new U.S.-backed government.
The most brazen assault began Thursday night, when five Taliban suicide bombers and a group of fighters tried to infiltrate Camp Bastion, an air base in the volatile southern province of Helmand, triggering an intense gun battle that lasted into Friday morning, said Omer Zowak, a spokesman for the provincial governors office. Afghan soldiers repelled the attack, killing at least five Taliban fighters. Two soldiers died and six were wounded in the battle.
The attack was the latest by the Islamist Taliban insurgency targeting figures and centers of authority and influence in recent weeks. British and American forces this year pulled out of Camp Bastion, a British base, and transferred it to the Afghan army. The assault exemplified how the Taliban is trying to seize advantage of a military landscape in which most American and international forces have stopped combat operations and are preparing to withdraw by the end of the year.
The attack also underscored why Afghan commanders have welcomed President Obamas decision to expand the U.S. military role next year from providing advice and training to allowing combat operations against the Taliban if a threat is perceived and also to provide air support to Afghan forces.
Since Afghan President Ashraf Ghani took the oath of office Sept.29, violence by the Taliban has mounted. The growing insecurity threatens to overshadow Ghanis trip to a donor conference in London next week, where he is to meet with U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and other foreign officials to raise billions of dollars in aid to develop Afghanistan.
The assault on Camp Bastion was followed Friday by a spate of other attacks across the country, an unusually high volume for a single day, even in Afghanistan. In a separate attack in Helmand province, a suicide bomber drove a truck with explosives into a police post in Nawzad district about 8:30a.m., killing four policemen and wounding five, Zowak said.
In Nangahar province, in the countrys east, an explosion inside a mosque during the Friday prayers, the most important of the week, wounded at least 26, including three with severe injuries, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a provincial spokesman. The explosives were most likely placed in the mosque, in Khogyani district, before the prayers began, he said.
And in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, three fruit sellers and a passerby were wounded when a bomb exploded in a busy market, said Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the governor of Balkh province.
The Taliban said it carried out both attacks in Helmand province but denied involvement in the mosque attack in Nangahar. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the market in Mazar-e Sharif.
The attacks came less than 24 hours after two suicide operations unfolded in the capital, Kabul. On Thursday, a bomber struck a British Embassy vehicle in eastern Kabul, killing six people, including a British citizen, and wounding more than 30. Hours later, three assailants targeted a guesthouse near the offices of an Arlington-based aid agency in an upscale district of the capital, triggering explosions and fierce gun battles. No civilian deaths were reported.
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Afghanistan on edge as stepped-up Taliban attacks kill at least 6
Afghan security forces inspect the British embassy vehicle targeted in the suicide attack. Photo: AP
The suicide bombing of a UK embassy vehicle in Kabul came just four days after an attack at a volleyball match in the south-eastern province of Paktika, which killed more than 45 people.
Neither of these suicide bombings came as a surprise. It was inevitable that the scaling down of the Western military presence would lead to more violence: the Taliban's intention to play a bigger political role in Afghanistan and its ability to undertake violent action were well known.
Yet, contrary to expectations, Afghanistan somehow managed to hold elections this year and find itself a president. What Afghans did not get was the promised transition to stability.
There are two primary reasons why the security situation is worsening. The first is politico-economic in nature. Having promised government jobs, money and power to supporters before the elections, President Ashraf Ghani and chief executive Abdullah Abdullah are struggling to deliver them.
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With about 850,000 employees on its payroll, but a desperate shortage of funds, the Afghan state has become a hub of disguised unemployment.
No wonder corruption is endemic. Those who don't get their share of funds are happy to part ways and seek revenge. All the Taliban needs to do is capitalise on this burgeoning discontent.
The other problem is the incapability of the Afghan National Security Forces to contain the violence. From a military tactical perspective, the Taliban, which controls the Afghan countryside, has a freedom of movement that the ANSF does not.
Restricted to securing the cities and key trade arteries of Afghanistan, Afghan soldiers often become sitting ducks. The Kabul government, for all its political imagination, has also proved inept in managing finances and distributing salaries to its soldiers. Trained to kill, disgruntled soldiers may have no qualms offering their services to the opposition in the future.
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