April 22, 2015

"The Taliban's promise Wednesday of new attacks in Afghanistan as they enter the spring fighting season is the latest development to challenge the White House narrative that Afghanistan is poised to emerge from more than a decade of war. 

"President Obama wants his legacy to be the president who got the U.S. out of two wars," Lisa Curtis, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, told FoxNews.com. "The facts on the ground don’t support that. He's gotten ahead of himself."

The Taliban, in a statement emailed to the media, said they would launch the annual spring offensive against the Afghan government beginning Friday. The terror organization said the strikes — dubbed "Azm" or perseverance in Dari and Arabic — are meant to "prolong the ongoing jihad," or holy war."

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