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Soldiers from the Afghan National Army on practice. Photo by EPA/BGNES
A campaign of the Afghan army that was hoped to establish it as a self-standing force in the country has been bogged by failure.
The operation east of Kabul was not coordinated with NATO forces and was carried out without air support, but met fierce resistance from the Taliban that forced the Afghan units to call for help, reports the New York Times.
A senior US army official that spoke to the NY Times said that this turn of events is very telling of the capacity of the Afghan army, which has been struggling to establish itself as the entity to uphold order in the war-torn country.
Sources say that in Wednesday's operation the regular Afghan forces took heavy casualties, although much fewer are officially reported.
According to official sources the Taliban are surrounded as of now.
At present, Bulgaria has deployed in Afghanistan peacekeeping forces totaling 527 troops in Kabul, Kandahar and Herat.
End of July the Bulgarian Minister of Defense Anyu Angelov announced that his country will dispatch a 700-strong combat unit to boost its troops in Afghanistan by 2013.
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