The Pentagon has played down a wave of attacks by Taliban fighters and a retaliatory U.S. airstrike against the insurgent group this week, amid concern that fresh violence in Afghanistan will derail the fragile, high-stakes peace deal the Trump administration reached with the militants last weekend, the Washington Times website reports today (March 6, 2020).
The U.S. forces conducted an airstrike on March 4 to drive back a Taliban assault on an Afghan government checkpoint in the nation's southern Helmand province.
The renewed violence points out a number of vulnerable links in the accord to end America's longest war and fulfill President Trump's promise to bring U.S. troops home.
These links include a lack of central Taliban control over its militants; the weakness within the government in Kabul; and the continuing threat from jihadist groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda.
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