Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 11, 2018 The Afghan military has increased its vetting of local forces working with U.S. troops in order to minimize insider attacks, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said. Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon on September 11 that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani brought up the issue when the two met
Press TV September 6, 2018 An Afghan policeman has killed and burned the bodies of eight fellow officers before taking their weapons to join the Taliban militants. The insider attack took place in Takhar province, northeastern Afghanistan, on Thursday morning, provincial police spokesman Khalil Asir said. The policeman, he said, had opened fire on his colleagues
VOA News July 7, 2018 NATO said Saturday that a U.S. soldier had been killed and two others wounded in what it called an “apparent insider attack” in southern Afghanistan. Alliance officials said the two wounded service members were in stable condition and receiving medical treatment. A Taliban spokesman said in a statement that the
Press TV August 6, 2017 The Taliban militants have taken control of a key area in northern Afghanistan after heavy clashes that claimed the lives of at least seven security forces, a provincial official says. Zabi Amani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said the militant group launched a series of coordinated attacks in the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 17, 2017 At least one Afghan soldier has been killed and seven U.S. service personnel wounded in a so-called insider attack at an Afghan National Army base in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. A U.S. military spokesman in Kabul also said that at least one Afghan soldier was wounded
Michael Hughes: Taliban insider attacks designed to sow distrust between U.S. and Afghan forces are likely to provoke a contrary reaction by strengthening America’s commitment to the war, Brookings Institution scholar Michael O’Hanlon told Afghan Online Press (AOP). On Tuesday, June 13, Defense Secretary James Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the United States was “not
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 27, 2016 At least 12 Afghan Army soldiers have been killed in their sleep in an attack allegedly facilitated by fellow soldiers with suspected links to the Taliban. A senior police official in the northern city of Kunduz said on September 27 that two soldiers fled an outpost in the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 19, 2016 An Afghan official says eight policemen have been killed by a colleague who turned his gun on them in the southern province of Zabul. Ghulam Jalani Farahi, the province’s deputy police chief, said the incident occurred at a checkpoint in the provincial capital, Qalat. He said the perpetrator