Afghan Insurgents Gaining as Trump Rolls Out War Plan<br />Over the past month, Taliban insurgents also took the districts of Taiwara, in the western province of Ghor, and Kohistan in Faryab Province,<br />but government forces have since retaken both of them, according to local officials.<br />The headquarters in Khamab District in the province of Jawzjan was taken by insurgents on Monday morning, said the spokesman<br />for the Afghan National Army’s commando units, Ahmad Jawid Salim, who said Afghan forces planned to recapture it.<br />21, 2017<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents overran the government headquarters of a district in northern Afghanistan on Monday, the latest in a string<br />of losses for Kabul, just hours before President Trump was to unveil his long-delayed strategic plan for handling the nearly 16-year war.<br />A senior United States military official said an average of 20 Afghan National Army soldiers were being killed each day this month.<br />On an average day, 31 members of the Afghan national security forces are killed,<br />as well as nine civilians, according to data from a variety of official sources.<br />On Monday, a government spokesmen said the soldiers were still trapped there, but<br />that heavy Afghan airstrikes had killed 80 insurgents and destroyed a dozen of their motorcycles.<br />On Aug. 13, the Taliban took the center of Ghormach District in Faryab Province in the north, although the Afghan National<br />Army retains control of a base in the district, which is under Taliban siege and being resupplied by helicopter.
