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Nearly 100 Afghan Soldiers Killed in a Week

28th May, 2017 · admin

VOA News / May 28, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A Taliban infiltrator has gunned down six government forces in southern Afghanistan, raising the number of army and police personnel killed by insurgents in the past week to nearly 100. Afghan and insurgent officials said Sunday the overnight “insider attack” incident took place at a

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban | Tags: Khost, Zabul |
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Afghan Official: Suicide Car Bomb Targets Forces, Kills Civilians

27th May, 2017 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News / May 27, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of government forces in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, killing at least 18 people and wounding six others. Officials said the attack in the eastern city of Khost targeted a special unit of Afghan forces providing security for U.S. troops

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban | Tags: Khost |
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Taliban militants kill 15 Afghan soldiers in Kandahar

26th May, 2017 · admin

Press TV May 26, 2017 Taliban militants have killed at least 15 Afghan soldiers during an attack on an army base in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar. Dawlat Waziri, a spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, said on Friday that the militants “launched a coordinated assault on an army base last night (Thursday) in the

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Posted in Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Afghan Army, Kandahar |
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Fresh Taliban Attacks Kill 25 Members of Afghan Forces

25th May, 2017 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 25, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide car bombing and clashes with Taliban insurgents across Afghanistan have killed at least 25 security personnel. The violence comes as the United Nations urges parties to the Afghan conflict to cease hostilities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, beginning this week. Local television

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Security, Taliban | Tags: Helmand, Kandahar, Kunduz, Ramadan |
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Top Of Agenda At NATO Meeting Is Fight Against Terrorism

25th May, 2017 · admin

Tolo News: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that the key items on the day’s agenda at the heads of state meeting would be the fight against terrorism and fair burden sharing. He also said that NATO would on Thursday decide on whether it will expand its support to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS (Daesh).

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, NATO-Afghanistan, Security, Taliban |
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Three killed in US drone strike in eastern Afghanistan

24th May, 2017 · admin

Press TV May 24, 2017 At least three people have lost their lives when a US drone carried out a strike in the eastern part of Afghanistan on the border with Pakistan. Kamran Afridi, a local official in the Pakistani border town of Miran Shah, said the deadly drone strike was carried out on the Afghan

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Posted in Drone warfare, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations |
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Afghan Forces Continue to Suffer Battlefield Casualties

23rd May, 2017 · admin

VOA News May 23, 2017 ISLAMABAD — A Taliban attack on a military base in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 11 government soldiers and wounded as many others, while a major insurgent offensive on a remote western district has triggered deadly clashes. A Defense Ministry statement said Tuesday the overnight Taliban assault targeted the military

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Posted in Security, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Army, Kandahar |
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German Aid Worker, Afghan Security Guard Killed in Kabul

21st May, 2017 · admin

VOA News May 21, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Unknown gunmen have killed a German aid worker and her Afghan security guard in Kabul before kidnapping a Finnish woman who worked for an aid organization. A Finnish Foreign Ministry spokesperson is reported to have confirmed a Finn has been taken hostage, and that there is no information yet

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Posted in Germany-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Bismillah Afghanmal, Finland, Kidnapping, Zabul |
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In Northwestern Afghanistan, ‘We Sold Our Property…To Buy Weapons’

20th May, 2017 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 20, 2017 Bruce Pannier For more than three years now, Qishloq Ovozi and the Majlis podcast have been following events in northern Afghanistan, in the provinces that border Central Asia, while the situation there went from concerning to unstable. This reporting benefited greatly from the work and dedication of one

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Posted in Anti-Government Militants, Central Asia, Security | Tags: Balkh, Jowzjan, Sar-e-Pol |
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Three killed, 30 wounded in Afghan bank attack

20th May, 2017 · admin

Press TV / May 20, 2017 Gunmen have stormed a bank in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three people and wounding over 30 more, officials say, as the country struggles with a rise in violent attacks. Five attackers, armed with suicide vests and guns, forced their way inside after one of them blew themselves up at the

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Posted in Anti-Government Militants, Civilian Injuries and Deaths, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Taliban | Tags: Paktia |
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