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Old 08-15-2018, 05:59 AM
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U.S. Airpower in Afghanistan Killed More than 220 Taliban in Four Days
By: Kristina Wong - 8-14-18
RE: https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...-in-four-days/

U.S. airpower killed more than 220 Taliban over the past four days, as its fighters tried to overrun the southeastern Afghanistan city of Ghazni last week, according to a spokesman for the U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan.
“From a U.S. Forces-Afghanistan perspective, U.S. airpower has killed more than 220 Taliban since August 10,” said Resolute Support spokesman Army Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell.

He said the U.S. conducted an initial strike on Friday, and conducted five strikes on Saturday, 16 strikes on Sunday, and ten on Monday.

He said U.S. Army Apache helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Combat Aviation Brigade provided close-air support on Friday, Sunday, and Monday.

The use of U.S. airpower in the fight for one city shows how serious the Taliban assault on Ghazni was. A New York Times report on Sunday said the Taliban launched four separate attacks across Afghanistan in recent days, with Ghazni the worst hit.

According to the report, more than 100 Afghan police officers and soldiers were killed in Ghazni by Sunday. About 100 more were killed in different areas.

Former Pentagon official Oubai Shahbandar, who also served as a civilian in Afghanistan, compared the attack to the Tet Offensive:

O’Donnell said U.S. forces were also assisting Afghan forces on the ground. He described an effort that involved three separate U.S. military outfits.

“In terms of Resolute Support assistance to the Afghan-led clearance operation, Task Force-Southeast, U.S. Special Forces and 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade advisors are providing advice on things such as clearance operations and combined-arms integration,” he said.

He said Ghazni remains under Afghan government control, though there are still Taliban “remnants” in the city.

“These insurgent forces do not pose a threat to the city’s collapse. However, the Taliban who have hidden themselves amongst the Afghan populace do pose a threat to the civilian population, who were terrorized and harassed,” he said.

“The Taliban, who falsely and repeatedly claim that they do not target civilians, have executed innocents, destroyed homes, burned a market, and created the conditions for a potential humanitarian crisis with this attack.

“Clearly the Taliban have paid no heed to the calls of the Afghan people for them to reconcile and join the peace process,” he said.
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Air Force Fighters And Army Gunships Annihilate 220 Taliban Fighters In Ghazni Counteroffensive
By OTHER on August 15, 2018
RE: https://taskandpurpose.com/taliban-m...-ghazni-fight/

U.S. Air Force fighters and Army helicopter gunships have attacked and killed more than 220 Taliban forces in Ghazni over the past several days after militants launched a massive attack on the Afghan city less than 100 miles from Kabul.

“Ghazni City remains under Afghan government control,” Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for Operation Resolute Support and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, told Military.com on Tuesday.

Afghan forces are conducting clearing operations in the city, but hundreds of civilians have fled, trying to escape the fierce fighting, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

“The Afghan National Army’s 203rd Corps, the Afghan National Police’s 303rd Zone, and Afghan Special Security Forces are rooting out the remnants of the Taliban within the city,” O’Donnell said. “What we observed, as these Afghan-led operations drove a large portion of Taliban from the city over the last day or so, was the retreating Taliban attacking the more vulnerable surrounding districts, which Afghan forces are reinforcing.”

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied that insurgents had been driven from Ghazni and said the Taliban destroyed a telecommunications tower on the city’s outskirts during the initial assault, cutting off landline and cellphone links to the city, the AP reported.

O’Donnell said the Taliban who remain in Ghazni “do not pose a threat to the city’s collapse … however, the Taliban who have hidden themselves amongst the Afghan populace do pose a threat to the civilian population, who were terrorized and harassed.”

U.S. Special Forces and 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade advisers are providing advice to Afghan forces on how to effectively conduct clearance operations and combined-arms integration, he added.

“U.S. airpower has killed more than 220 Taliban since Aug. 10,” O’Donnell said. “In addition to the initial strike on Friday, U.S. forces conducted five strikes Saturday, 16 strikes Sunday, 10 Monday and none thus far today.”

AH-64 Apache helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Combat Aviation Brigade provided close-air support for Afghan forces on Friday, Sunday, and Monday, he said, adding that Brig. Gen. Richard Johnson, deputy commander of the 101st and commander of Task Force South East, advised Afghan leaders in an operational command-and-control center.

This story originally appeared on Military.com
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