KABUL: The Afghan Taliban have announced that they will launch ‘Operation Mansouri’ to target what they called ‘enemy forces’.

The operation has been named after the group’s former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who was killed in a US drone strike in May 2016.

According to a statement released by the insurgents on Friday, the operation will target foreign forces with tactics including “conventional attacks, guerrilla warfare, complex martyrdom attacks, insider attacks.

“The enemy will be targeted, harassed, killed or captured until they abandon their last posts,” it read.

Taliban continued to battle government forces, most successfully in last week’s attack on the military base outside the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in which at least 135 young recruits were killed.