“So Kabul is our main effort right now.”He said the Afghan government has replaced the top five police officials in each district inside Kabul as part of a plan to more effectively counter the militants. At the same time, security in Afghanistan is so tenuous that parliamentary elections set for July could slip to autumn. Nicholson spoke to reporters Wednesday at Bagram Airfield north of Kabul shortly after consulting for a second day with Defence Secretary Jim Mattis. Nicholson said the U.S. government needs to focus more attention on the possibilities for a diplomatic opening to the Taliban. “I would like to see a real concentrated effort on this,” he said in the interview.

Source: National Post March 14, 2018 09:56 UTC