Taliban announces onset of ‘Al Khandaq Jihadi operations’
By Bill Roggio | April 25, 2018
The Afghan Taliban announced the opening of their 2018 spring offensive today, named the “Al Khandaq Jihadi operations†after the battle in Medina in 627 AD in which the Prophet Muhammad’s forces were significantly undermanned and besieged by Arab and Jewish forces yet still prevailed. US forces in Afghanistan are the primary target of operations, while Afghan government and security forces would be secondary, according to the Taliban statement.
The previous two spring offensives were named after the Taliban’s first two emirs: Mullah Omar, the group’s founder and first leader, and his successor, Mullah Mansour. Mullah Omar died in a Pakistani hospital in 2013, while Mullah Mansour was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan in 2016.
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/04/taliban-announces-onset-of-al-khandaq-jihadi-operations.php
