Sunday October 30, 2016
Kabul (BNA) NATO officials have said the Taliban is struggling with a number of major issues mainly a financial recession, the rising number of casualties and serious disagreements over their leadership.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that they and Afghan forces must be prepared for any situation amid the ongoing war in the country. Stoltenberg said that the Taliban used all potential to occupy major territories in Afghanistan, but the Afghan security forces have foiled their attempts to determine their objectives in major Afghan strategic locations. NATO believes that the Taliban has been fractured internally and there is no unity within the group over a single leader acceptable to all. “There is going to be continued fighting in Afghanistan and we have to be prepared also for surprises. But the thing the main message is that the Afghan army and the Afghan security forces have proved very capable, very determined,” Stoltenberg said. “Taliban have suffered from financial challenges number one, number two they do have leadership challenges in terms of figuring out who is really going to be their leader, and number three they have absolutely suffered a lot of casualties this year,” said Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, a spokesman for the NATO-led Resolute in Afghanistan.
