Taliban bent on ‘killing and capturing’ US troops in new spring offensive

Taliban insurgents announced a plan to launch a spring offensive “mainly focusing on crushing, killing and capturing American invaders,” in a repudiation of the Afghan government’s offer to start peace talks.

“Our primary target will be the American invaders and their intelligence agents,” the Afghan Taliban said in a statement, per Pakistan’s Daily Times. “The planning and strategy … is based on guerilla, offensive, infiltrated and various other new and intricate tactics against the new war strategy of the enemy, mainly focusing on crushing, killing and capturing American invaders and their supporters.”