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Eight Afghan Security Officers Killed By Roadside Bomb As Attacks Continue

22nd July, 2020 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 22, 2020 Eight Afghan security personnel, including three senior security officials, were killed by a roadside bomb in a central district targeted by the Taliban as violence in the country continues to surge despite a peace deal. The eight security officers were on their way from an army base in

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Posted in Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Uruzgan |
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Polio cases reach to 9 in Afghanistan

19th June, 2019 · admin

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 19 (Xinhua) — The number of polio cases in Afghanistan has reached nine as a new case has been detected in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province, the country’s Ministry of Public Health said in a statement released here Wednesday. “Unfortunately another polio case detected in Trinkot, capital city of Uruzgan province as a two

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Posted in Health News | Tags: Polio, Uruzgan |
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US-Trained Afghan Pilots Conduct First Nighttime Airstrikes

13th December, 2018 · admin · 7 Comments

VOA News | December 13, 2018: The Afghan ministry of defense Wednesday released footage of a series of nighttime airstrikes carried out by Afghan security forces. Afghan officials told VOA the airstrikes were carried out in southern Uruzgan province against Taliban hideouts. The recent strikes mark the first time U.S.-trained Afghan pilots are carrying out airstrikes

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Posted in Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Air Force, Uruzgan |
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Airstrike, Taliban Raid Kill More Than 21 Afghan Security Forces

7th December, 2018 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News December 7, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban has killed at least 14 Afghan soldiers and taken more than 20 others hostage in the western Afghan province of Herat, which borders Iran, officials confirmed Friday. Separately, a counter-Taliban airstrike in central Uruzgan province killed at least seven Afghan security forces. The latest violence

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Posted in Drugs, Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Army, Herat, opium, Poppy cultivation, Uruzgan |
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Afghan Amputee Police Officers Continue To Fight Taliban

18th November, 2018 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan: Afghan police officers who have lost legs in the line of duty have returned to their unit to fight the Taliban in Uruzgan Province. But some officers say they haven’t been paid their salaries or received any medical support.

Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Police, hero, Uruzgan |
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Security Chiefs Reject Claims Of ‘Ethnic War’

14th November, 2018 · admin

Tolo News: Heads of Afghanistan’s security institutions on Wednesday rejected claims that the battles in Uruzgan and Ghazni provinces, and others, were an “ethnic war”, but said that regional countries and terrorists are trying to manipulate these battles in order for them to look like this. Interior minister Wais Ahmad Barmak said regional intelligence agencies and insurgent

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Security | Tags: Ghazni, Hazaras, Uruzgan, Wais Ahmad Barmak |
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Deadly Clashes, Suicide Bombing Kill Dozens In Afghanistan

12th November, 2018 · admin · 4 Comments

RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 12, 2018 Dozens of people have been killed in violence across Afghanistan, including in a suicide bombing in Kabul targeting a protest by members of the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority, officials say. The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for the suicide blast on November 12 that killed at

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Ashraf Ghani Government, Farah, Ghazni, Protest, Shiites, Uruzgan |
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Hundreds Protest In Kabul Over Ghazni, Uruzgan Insecurity

12th November, 2018 · admin · 3 Comments

Tolo News: Hundreds of protesters marched through the night from the western parts of Kabul to the city center, close to the Presidential Palace, in protest against what they say is neglect on the part of government to secure large parts of Ghazni and Uruzgan provinces.  The protesters accuse government of not providing enough security to

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Security | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government, Ghazni, Hazaras, Uruzgan |
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Dozens Of Afghan Soldiers’ Bodies Found After Taliban Attack

10th August, 2018 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 9, 2018 The bodies of dozens of Afghan soldiers have been found at a base that Taliban fighters attacked last week in the southern province of Uruzgan, military officials say. “We have discovered and transported 40 bodies from the area so far,” Chinartu district Governor Faiz Mohammad said on August

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Uruzgan |
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Whereabouts of Afghan Soldiers Unknown Following Taliban Attack

4th August, 2018 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News August 4, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Authorities in southern Afghanistan said Saturday they have lost contact with scores of soldiers after Taliban insurgents assaulted a military base in the restive Uruzgan province. A regional Afghan National Army (ANA) spokesman told VOA heavy fighting erupted following the late Friday insurgent offensive in the Chinarto

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Posted in Peace Talks, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Uruzgan |
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