On April 16, Afghan policemen stand outside a building in Kabul where insurgents -- likely members of the Haqqani network -- launched an attack the day before. The attack was part of a series of coordinated assaults targeting the Afghan capital and central cities in the three eastern provinces of Nangarhar, Paktia, and Logar. A Taliban spokesman described the attacks, which occurred near the peak of the U.S. troop surge in the country, as the opening of its spring offensive.
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