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Afghan Conflict Update - September 2019 | SOF NewsAbout SOF NewsAccording to some the peace talks will yield an agreement between the Taliban and the United States that will lead to a peaceful resolution of the Afghan conflict. However President Trump has put a damper on that for the time being. Violence still rages across the country. The Taliban recently attempted a takeover of Kunduz – once again. The Afghan commandos continue to take the fight to the insurgents. Bombings in the major cities and assassinations of government officials at the sub-national level have not decreased. Currently the major focus for many is the elections scheduled for the end of September.SecurityTracking the Deaths. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation an average of 74 men, women, and children were killed every day in Afghanistan throughout the month of August. BBC confirms that there were 611 security incidents in which 2,307 people died. Most were combatants but a fifth of the deaths were civilians. Read “Afghanistan war: Tracking the killings in August 2019â€, BBC News, September 16, 2019.Violence to Rise. A senior U.S. general officer says that he expects violence to rise in the lead-up to the election in the last part of September. (Military Times, Sep 16, 2019).Read more at: http://www.sof.news/afghanistan/afghanistan-peace-talks/
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