阿富汗展开大规模围剿塔利班行动 (Large-Scale Anti-Taleban Offensive Under Way

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阿富汗展开大规模围剿塔利班行动 (Large-Scale Anti-Taleban Offensive Under Way in Afghanistan)

美国领导的驻阿富汗联军部队说，一场针对塔利班反叛分子发动的攻势正在阿富汗南部进行，参加行动的军队人数达1万1千人。这次行动是联军部队自2001年推翻塔利班政权以来发动的最大攻势。联军官员说，美国的2000多名军人以及其它来自英国、加拿大及阿富汗的军队参加了行动。联军部队说，这次行动的目的是对南部四省的塔利班分子藏身地进行袭击，并重创反叛分子的领导层。

美国官员说，未来几天，随着部队行动的展开，联军的袭击步伐和规模将会大幅度加强。

The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan says a large-scale offensive is under way against Taleban insurgents in the south of the country, involving 11-thousand troops. The offensive is the biggest of its kind since coalition forces ousted the Taleban in 2001. Coalition officials say the operation involves more than two-thousand U.S. troops and soldiers from Britain, Canada and Afghanistan. They say the goal is to attack Taleban safe havens in four southern provinces and disrupt the insurgents' leadership.

U.S. officials say the pace and scale of coalition attacks is expected to rise sharply in the next days.