More great news coming out of Afghanistan.
Afghan insurgents ‘on brink of defeat’
Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have “decapitated” the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a “tipping point”, the commander of British forces has said.
And this:
Taliban flee U.S. Marines onslaught in Afghanistan
Taliban insurgents are fleeing south towards the Afghan border with Pakistan in the face of a U.S. Marines offensive in volatile Helmand province, the NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Monday.
U.S. Marines have been pushing south from the former Taliban stronghold of Garmsir in Helmand for a month in an operation meant to cut off insurgent infiltration routes from Pakistan.
“They have shown under some amount of pressure they flee to their sanctuaries,” General Dan McNeill told a news conference.
“In the last two days we have had many reports … that the insurgents after experiencing these several weeks of pressure below Garmsir are trying to flee to the south perhaps to go back to sanctuaries in another country,” he said.
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