Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty April 4, 2021 Afghan police say that one security force member was killed, and three others were wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb near the capital, Kabul. The blast occurred at around 8:40 a.m. local time near the Qargha Lake in Paghman district, authorities said on April 4. Police
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 27, 2021 Afghan officials say more than a dozen police officers have been killed in attacks by the Taliban in the country’s volatile south. In the deadliest incident, 10 officers were killed after the Taliban attacked a security checkpoint along a highway in Helmand Province. The attack occurred late on
By Radio Free Afghanistan February 17, 2021 Two Afghan policemen were shot dead in eastern parts of Kabul on February 17, officials said, in the latest such attack in the capital. Police said unidentified gunmen opened fire on the pair’s vehicle, killing them, while a security official said the two were father and son. Kabul has
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 27, 2021 Afghan officials say two policemen have been killed and at least five others wounded in separate attacks in different parts of the capital, Kabul. The two officers were killed on January 27 by “sticky bombs” — explosives attached to their vehicle — in the eastern district of the
Drug addicts in Farah City in Afghanistan’s Farah Province say they have been forced to work without pay for the local police. They claim they were made to work away from prying eyes on construction sites inside military compounds. The provincial offices of Afghanistan’s Labor and Social Affairs Ministry confirmed the allegations, but the local
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 16, 2021 A group of Taliban militants has killed 12 members of the local security forces in the country’s western Herat Province, in what provincial police on January 16 described as an insider attack. Herat police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada said the attack was carried out by at least two
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 26, 2020 At least two Afghan police officers were killed in a spate of bomb attacks in the capital, Kabul, on December 26. Two other officers and one civilian were reported injured when three so-called sticky bombs were detonated in different locations across Kabul. The attacks targeted police. The two
NYT: Since the United States signed a troop withdrawal agreement in February with the Taliban, the militants have established new checkpoints along major highways, seizing control of long stretches of roadways, extorting millions of dollars a month from truckers and travelers and even displacing the police’s own efforts to extort bribes. Click here to read
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
VOA News: Afghan government said Saturday that it has taken necessary measures to curb the use of drugs in the police forces amid a newly published report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction saying that half of the police forces in the southern provinces used drugs.