Battle erupts in west Afghanistan after executions

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan security forces backed by Western warplanes battled insurgents in western Afghanistan on Tuesday after Taliban fighters publicly executed three former government employees.

Violence has increased sharply in Afghanistan over the past year despite the growing number of U.S. and NATO troops, more than seven years after the Islamist Taliban were ousted from power by U.S.-backed Afghan forces.

Fighting in Farah province, a vast desert area near Iran, began on Monday after the Taliban publicly executed the three ex-government employees to punish them for cooperating with the state, provincial governor Rohul Amin told Reuters.

Later the same day, Afghan security forces backed by foreign air power launched raids in the Bala Boluk district of the province. Four Afghan security forces members and about 25 insurgents had been killed so far, Amin said.



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[ohio2007]

1. Why did they behead three "former" government workers ? was it for being spys or was it bc they

could no longer afford to pay protection bc they lost their jobs?

[alfredo]

2. It was to intimidate current government workers.

[bemildred]

3. We are not impotent to stop this shit.

Really, this is just a fluke that keeps happening over and over again, a really bad run of luck is all.

[Alamuti Lotus]

4. And furthermore, a sign of imminent victory right around the corner

Victory for whom, I am not so sure..