Afghan army devise counteroffensive in northern provinces



MOSCOW:

Afghanistan supervision army devise a counteroffensive in a country’s northern provinces after losing belligerent to a Taliban, Russia’s RIA news agency cited an confidant to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as observant on Monday.

National confidence confidant Hamdullah Mohib told RIA in an talk that supervision army had not approaching a Taliban descent though would “absolutely, definitely” counterattack.

On Sunday, Afghan authorities claimed to have thwarted a Taliban attack on the Bagram Airfield recently vacated by US army after 20 years of occupation.

According to Bagram district Governor Sheren Rufi, a organisation of 20 Taliban insurgents pounded a internal troops checkpoint nearby a airbase, with one policeman and one mutinous killed in a sell of fire.

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There was no explain of shortcoming for a conflict from a Taliban.

Conceived during a Cold War, a Bagram Airfield saw a pregnancy of a complicated Afghan Air Force before portion as a categorical citadel for a invading Soviet army and after as a bottom of operations for a US in a war-ravaged country.

By leaving a sprawling trickery unaware Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan’s ancestral city of Bagram, a US this week inched closer to finale a longest troops engagement.

For their part, a Taliban hailed a withdrawal of US army from a Bagram Airfield.

“We cruise depletion of all US army from #Bagram a certain step find withdrawal of unfamiliar army from all tools of a country. Such is in a seductiveness of both them Afghans. Afghans can pierce closer to assent confidence with finish withdrawal of unfamiliar forces,” a organisation pronounced in a statement.