Even as the US begins to withdraw from Afghanistan, insurgents abetted by Pakistan pose the major threat to US-led forces, the Pentagon said on Friday. Security has improved in recent months and enemy attacks are down in Afghanistan compared to a year ago, the Pentagon said in a twice-annual report to the US Congress.
NATO and Afghan forces largely “stunted” the Taliban’s spring and summer offensive, although the insurgency remains adaptive and resilient, with a “significant regenerative capacity,” the report said. But attacks from across the eastern border were up because of the support the insurgency received from safe havens in Pakistan, it said.