U.S. forces clear Taliban near Kabul - Focus on Afghanistan - MSNBC.com

U.S. forces clear Taliban near Kabul - Focus on Afghanistan - MSNBC.com: "TAGAB VALLEY, Afghanistan - While the southern city of Kandahar reels from a series of suicide attacks, Kabul is enjoying a respite because of a little-publicized operation that officials say disrupted Taliban suicide training cells and scattered hundreds of fighters.

After 115 suicide attacks this year nationwide, including a rash of bombings this fall that killed almost 40 people in Kabul, the Afghan capital hasn’t suffered a suicide attack in two months.

Military officials had feared a bloody winter campaign in Kabul, saying 300 to 500 Taliban fighters had massed 60 miles north of the city in this isolated valley from which the earlier wave of attacks was launched." Read complete post here.