Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid is reporting that his faction is launching more than 100 attacks “daily” in Afghanistan since the beginning of their spring offensive in late April.
The statement was issued just hours after Afghan Interior Minister Gen. Mujtaba Patang issued a statement of his own noting that the Afghan National Police (ANP) were seeing enormous casualties over the past two months, with 395 killed and 592 injured.
That’s only a fraction of the overall death toll of the conflict in Afghanistan, of course, with Taliban forces also launching attacks on politicians, pro-government tribesmen, the Afghan military, and local police forces, as well as NATO occupation troops.
The huge death toll mirrors similar tolls during past spring offensives, and suggests that the constant US claims of military “progress” in the war aren’t leading to any actual changes.