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Dozens Of Afghan Soldiers Killed By Taliban As Government Suffers Setbacks
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
March 17, 2019
Afghan officials on March 17 reported setbacks for government security forces in northwestern and northern parts of the country.
In the northwestern province of Badghis, provincial council member Mohammad Naser Nazari said about 100 Afghan soldiers fled their posts and tried to cross into neighboring Turkmenistan during a weeklong battle against Taliban fighters.
Nazari said on March 17 that 50 government soldiers had been killed during the battle in Badghis’s Bala Murghab district during the past week.
He said the Bala Murghab district was almost completely controlled by the Taliban, with government forces confined to the district headquarters.
Jamshid Shahabi, a spokesman for Badghis’s provincial governor, put the casualty toll for government forces at 16 killed and 20 wounded during the past week.
Shahabi confirmed that a number of Afghan troops tried to flee but did not provide an exact figure.
Meanwhile, in the northern province of Faryab, provincial council chief Mohammad Tahir Rahmani said Taliban fighters killed at least 22 Afghan soldiers with attacks on their checkpoints late on March 16 and early on March 17.
Rahmani said 20 Afghan government troops were wounded in Faryab Province overnight.
Based on reporting by AP and Reuters
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Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Killing Afghan TV Journalist
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By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan
March 17, 2019
KABUL — An affiliate of the Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the killing on March 15 of an Afghan TV journalist in the eastern province of Khost.
The group did not say in its March 17 statement why it targeted Sultan Mahmoud Khirkhwa, a 60-year-old reporter who was shot in the head by gunmen in the provincial capital of Khost.
Khirkhwa worked for the private television station Zaman. The men who attacked him were reportedly shot dead.
He was the fourth journalist to be killed in Afghanistan this year.
The killing follows that of Afghan TV journalist Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, who was killed in a car bomb blast in the southern province of Helmand last week.
A regional group, the Journalists’ Safety Committee, issued an appeal on March 16 calling for the government to do more to protect journalists in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan was the deadliest country for journalists worldwide last year, with at least 13 of them killed in relation to their work, according to the New York- based Committee to Protect Journalists.
With reporting by AP and TOLOnews
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40 years after escaping war, Afghan killed in Christchurch mosque
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