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Afghan forces to resume offensive

operations
President Ashraf Ghani blames two separate attacks that killed dozens of people on Taliban and ISIS

By AT CONTRIBUTOR
MAY 13, 2020

Afghan security forces inspect the scene after gunmen attack a Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in the Dasht-e-Barchi
area of Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 12, 2020. Photo: Anadolu Agency

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ordered the country’s security forces Tuesday to TOP TRENDING STORIES
resume offensive operations against the Taliban and other insurgent groups, following
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“I order all the security forces to end their active defense position, return to offensive
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postures, and resume their operations against the enemy,” Ghani said in a televised
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No group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attacks in the capital Kabul and the Wuhan
eastern province of Nangarhar, but Ghani blamed the Taliban and ISIS.
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The move was meant to show good faith ahead of eventual peace talks, but the Taliban
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insurgents signed a deal with the United States.

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safeguard our countrymen and infrastructure, and to repel attacks and threats by the
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