{"id":66544,"date":"2021-02-01T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/02\/01\/taliban-attacks-increased-in-afghan-capital-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:17:32","slug":"taliban-attacks-increased-in-afghan-capital-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2021\/02\/01\/taliban-attacks-increased-in-afghan-capital-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban attacks increased in Afghan capital, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul are on the rise<\/a>, with increasing targeted killings of government officials, civil-society leaders and journalists, a report by a U.S. watchdog said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes as the Biden administration plans to take a new look at the peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban signed last February under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report said Taliban-initiated attacks across Afghanistan during the last quarter of 2020 were slightly lower than in the previous quarter, but exceeded those of the same period in 2019, according to numbers provided by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnemy attacks in Kabul were higher<\/a> than during the previous quarter,\u201d the report quoted U.S. forces. \u201cThey were much higher than in the same quarter last year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known as SIGAR, monitors the billions of dollars the U.S. spends in war-ravaged Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks in Afghanistan in December, including strikes in northern Baghlan and southern Uruzgan provinces over a two-day period that killed at least 19 members of the Afghan security forces. In Kabul, a roadside bomb struck a vehicle, wounding two, and a lawyer was shot in a targeted killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\t