US carries out air moves on Taliban in Helmand

America performed a number of airstrikes towards Taliban combatants in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the spokesman for america army in Afghanistan stated on Monday.

The moves, performed over the past two days, mark a unprecedented army intervention via america because it signed an settlement on troop withdrawal with the Taliban in February.

Col Sonny Leggett, the spokesman for america army in Afghanistan, on Twitter showed that the American forces performed over the last couple days a number of airstrikes in beef up of Afghan safety pressure underneath assault via Taliban within the southern Helmand province.

Legget additionally stated that the moves over the last two days in Helmand didn’t violate the US-Taliban settlement signed in February.

“During the last two days USFOR-A has performed a number of focused moves in Helmand to shield ANDSF forces underneath assault via Taliban combatants, in line with the US-Taliban agrmnt. USFOR-A has & will proceed to offer beef up in protection of the ANDSF underneath assault via the Taliban,” Col Sonny Leggett tweeted.

“The Taliban want to in an instant forestall their offensive movements in Helmand Province and cut back their violence across the nation. It’s not in line with the US-Taliban settlement and undermines the continuing Afghan Peace Talks,” Leggett, in any other tweet, stated quoting Gen Scott Miller, the Commander of america Forces in Afghanistan.

During the last two days USFOR-A has performed a number of focused moves in Helmand to shield ANDSF forces underneath assault via Taliban combatants, in line with the U.S.-Taliban agrmnt. USFOR-A has & will proceed to offer beef up in protection of the ANDSF underneath assault via the Taliban

— USFOR-A Spokesman Col Sonny Leggett (@USFOR_A) October 12, 2020

“The Taliban want to in an instant forestall their offensive movements in Helmand Province and cut back their violence across the nation. It’s not in line with the US-Taliban settlement and undermines the continuing Afghan Peace Talks.”
Gen Scott Miller, Commander

— USFOR-A Spokesman Col Sonny Leggett (@USFOR_A) October 12, 2020

Leggett stated that US forces have and can proceed to offer beef up in protection of Afghan nationwide safety forces underneath assault via the Taliban.

The announcement of US moves comes after a gun fight on Monday was once reported in and round Lashkar Gah, the capital town of Helmand province.

Eyewitnesses stated there’s sporadic capturing throughout the town and citizens have fled from the Nad Ali and Nawa districts on account of the preventing.

Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, stated Taliban combatants had began their coordinated assaults in numerous portions of the province over the last week and that those had intensified over the weekend.

“The Taliban have destroyed a number of bridges over the primary freeway, so the freeway is closed at this time and nobody can commute,” stated Zwak.

Representatives of the Afghan executive and the Taliban are retaining intra-Afghan negotiations in Qatar, a Mideast nation the place the Taliban have had a political place of work for a few years.

The negotiations are supposed to finish the rustic’s decades-long lengthy conflict, following a US-Taliban peace deal signed in February in Doha, Qatar’s capital.

(With inputs from AP)

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