Tolo News: The plan will include merging 10,000 local policemen with local army forces and others with the ANP. The government has started implementing a plan to merge the Afghan Local Police with Afghan Local Army and the Afghan National Police, officials said on Friday. Recently, the Afghan government separated the Public Protection Forces, Border
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 24, 2020 Afghan government forces claim to have killed 65 Taliban militants during a battle in the nation’s eastern provinces as fighting continues to rage between the two sides while they hold peace talks. The latest battle took place on September 23 after the Taliban fighters stormed a military headquarters
Tolo News: The dead bodies of three members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) have been found in Khak-e-Jabar district of Kabul province, the family members confirmed on Thursday. The family members of the dead soldiers said that the three were taken hostage by the Taliban and were “brutally tortured” by the group before being
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 25, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The U.S. peace envoy to Afghanistan said Friday that violence in the war-torn country had lately been “too high,” but that fatalities among Afghan government security forces battling the Taliban insurgency had dropped 35 percent to 40 percent compared with the same period in 2019. Zalmay
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 4, 2020 ISLAMABAD – NATO’s non-combatant military alliance in Afghanistan said Saturday it has arranged its “largest supply ever” of personal protective medical equipment to help Afghan security forces fight the coronavirus. The announcement by the 38-nation Resolute Support mission came just days after news reports said the pandemic was
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News June 22, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan’s security forces have suffered their bloodiest week so far in the 19-year-old Afghan war. The Afghanistan’s National Security Council said 291 members of Afghan National and Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) were killed and 550 others wounded in multiple Taliban attacks last week. “Taliban carried out
By Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News | May 11, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – At least six members of Afghan National Army were killed, and five others wounded in a Taliban attack in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan Sunday night, according to Afghan ministry of defense. However, a government source who did not want to be named said
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News May 4, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Taliban have claimed an attack on an Afghan military and intelligence base in Helmand province Sunday night that killed at least seven and wounded more than a dozen, according to a security source. The attack was confirmed by multiple Afghan officials, including the spokesman for Helmand
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 30, 2020 Militants have killed 28 members of the Afghan security forces, police officials and authorities said on March 30, as the government postponed a release of Taliban prisoners. Militants stormed the compound of a top police official in the northeastern province of Takhar on March 29, killing 13 police
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 29, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Wednesday a commando operation in a northwestern region has freed 62 security personnel held in a Taliban prison. Meanwhile, the insurgent group, in a fresh attack elsewhere, says it has killed at least 18 Afghan security forces. A Defense Ministry statement noted