Afghanistan Partial Threat Assessment: August 28, 2016
Aug 28, 2016 - Caitlin Forrest![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/August%2028%20AFG%20Partial%20Threat%20Assessment-01_14.png?itok=cSqiBJkF)
Taliban militants are successfully expanding their territorial control across several regions of Afghanistan during their 2016 summer offensive, Operation Omari. The ANSF’s counter-offensive, Operation Shafaq has repulsed individual Taliban operations, such as the August offensive to isolate Helmand’s provincial capital, but the ANSF remain unprepared and under-resourced to conduct operations in more than one region simultaneously, despite NATO and U.S. assistance.