U.S. Intensifying Air Strikes In Northern Afghanistan

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off for a nighttime mission at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Aug. 22, 2017.

VOA: US Expands Anti-Taliban Airstrikes to Northern Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD — The U.S. military says a new anti-Taliban air campaign has been expanded to northern Afghanistan near the border with China and Tajikistan to destroy insurgent revenue sources, training facilities and support networks.

The airstrikes began in November under President Donald Trump’s new Afghan war strategy and initially focused on Taliban-linked narcotics producing labs in the largest southern province of Helmand with a mission to cut insurgent main revenue streams.

“Over the past 96 hours, U.S. forces conducted air operations to strike Taliban training facilities in Badakhshan province, preventing the planning and rehearsal of terrorist acts near the border with China and Tajikistan,” the military announced Tuesday.

It added the strikes also destroyed stolen Afghan National Army vehicles that were in the process of being converted to vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices.

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Update: US Air Force B-52 drops record number of precision bombs on Taliban (FOX News)

WNU Editor: It looks like the U.S. and its Afghan allies are going to rely more on air power to target and destroy Taliban targets than in the past.