U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, commander of the U.S. Central Command, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Stars and Stripes: US military uses strategy from ISIS fight to attack Taliban
The U.S. military is ratcheting up its attack on Taliban funding streams in Afghanistan, where troops are using a strategy that paid dividends in the battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the general in charge of U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.
“This is a lesson learned from Iraq and Syria, where we got serious about going after the funding streams that supported ISIS,” Army Gen. Joseph Votel said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “We started to see an immediate impact, so that is exactly the intention here.”
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Update: U.S. CENTCOM: Taliban Is a Narco-Terror Group, ‘Not a Popular Insurgency’ (CNS)
WNU Editor: The Afghan Taliban and Afghanistan is not ISIS and Syria/Iraq.
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