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KABUL — Despite a sharp increase in assassinations and a continuing flood of civilian casualties, NATO officials said Saturday that they had reversed the momentum of the Taliban insurgency as enemy attacks were falling for the first time in years.
Militant attacks were down 26 percent in the quarter ending in September over that quarter last year, said an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The decrease brought the overall level of attacks for the first nine months of this year down 8 percent from the same time period last year, when enemy attacks peaked, according to NATO figures.
