Taliban reacts to U.S. pressure, ISIS with wave of Kabul attacks

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NBC News
JAN 30 2018, 6:31 AM ET

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A pair of spectacular Taliban attacks in Afghanistan's capital in a seven-day span follow months of incessant bombing by the Trump administration and represent an apparent message to their Islamic State rivals, experts say.
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The most recent Taliban attacks are meant to show that winter is not slowing them down, according to Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington. “The level of fear struck in Kabul is much greater given they attacked in the supposedly protected city center," she said. "It shows their prowess and potency.”...Afghan government and U.S. air strikes aren’t only killing militants. While militant violence cause most civilian casualties in 2017, deaths and injuries from government and international aerial operations jumped 52 percent in 2017, according to Human Rights Watch.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-reacts-u-s-pressure-isis-wave-kabul-attacks-n842491

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1. One of the barely reported stories out of Fire and Fury is that we might be on a losing path

In Afghanistan

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2. That is a very good point.