Taliban fighters posing with weapons in an undisclosed location in AfghanistanThomson Reuters
Voice of America: Officials Count Around 30,000 War Dead in Afghanistan This Year
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Hostilities in Afghanistan have left around 30,000 people dead and as many wounded, mostly insurgents, according to the latest official estimates.
As of Sunday, counter-insurgency operations conducted by Afghan police and military forces around the country had left more than 18,500 "enemy" fighters dead and wounded 12,000 more, according to defense and interior ministry officials.
Mohammad Radmanesh, the deputy defense ministry spokesman, told VOA that authorities have also captured hundreds of insurgents.
He declined to discuss casualties among the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces, or ANDSF, but admitted they "increased by more than 10 percent compared to the previous year."
ANDSF suffered around 20,000 casualties, including 5,000 deaths in 2015, according to the United States military.
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Update: Death toll surges in Afghanistan as war enters 16th year (Washington Times)
WNU Editor: I cannot help but sense that 2017 is going to be worse.
Update #2: This is an interesting read .... How Peace Between Afghanistan and the Taliban Foundered (New York Times).
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