塔利班在阿富汗展開“春季攻勢”
The Taliban has unleashed its annual so-called "spring offensive" in Afghanistan, saying it will mainly target U.S.-led foreign "occupation" troops to force them to quit the country.
In a formal announcement released to media Friday, the Islamist insurgency claimed "Operation Mansouri" went into action early Friday morning across all 34 Afghan provinces.
It explained the offensive has been named after Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was killed by an American drone last year.
"These operations will involve conventional attacks, guerrilla warfare, complex martyrdom (suicide) attacks, insider attacks, and use of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) to achieve their objectives," said the statement by the Taliban's so-called leadership war council.
While there has been no letup in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan over the past several years, the onset of springtime witnesses an intensification in militant activities because melting snows on mountain peaks allows insurgents to launch major battlefield attacks.
Friday's announcement came a week after the Taliban staged its deadliest ever raid on a major Afghan military base in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.塔利班在阿富汗展開其年度所謂“春季攻勢”，表示將把美國領導的外國“佔領軍”作爲主要攻擊目標，迫使他們放棄阿富汗。
在星期五對媒體發表的一份正式聲明中，這個伊斯蘭叛亂武裝稱“曼蘇爾行動”星期五早晨在阿富汗所有34個省展開。
聲明解釋，此次攻勢是以已故的塔利班領導人穆拉·曼蘇爾的名字命名的。曼蘇爾去年在一次美國無人機空襲中喪生。
塔利班所謂的“戰爭委員會領導層”發表聲明說，“這次行動將包括常規襲擊，游擊戰爭，自殺襲擊、內部襲擊以及使用簡易爆炸裝置，來達到行動目標。”
過去幾年阿富汗的叛亂襲擊並沒有減少，激進分子在春季的攻擊行動會有所強化，因爲高山地區融化的積雪使叛亂分子得以發動重大的戰地襲擊。
塔利班星期五做出上述宣佈的一週前，對北部城市馬紮裏沙里夫的一個阿富汗主要軍事基地實施了其最爲致命的一次攻擊行動。
