Hasib Danish Alikozai VOA News September 27, 2016 WASHINGTON — Ja Jaan, a member of the Afghan national police, was traveling home from his job in the provincial capital of southern Uruzgan province to spend a few days off with his family when he came under attack from the Taliban. “I was armed, and I knew
Press TV July 31, 2016 At least two dozen Afghan police officers have been killed in a series of attacks by the Taliban militants in the southern province of Helmand in 48 hours, local officials say. Kareem Atal, the director of Helmand’s provincial council, said on Sunday that the policemen were killed during clashes with
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 30, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Taliban militants in Afghanistan have intensified battlefield attacks, killing around 57 Afghan security forces and wounding 37 others in the restive southern Helmand province. Afghan officials say fierce fighting has raged since Saturday, when the Taliban launched a string of coordinated assaults on three districts, including Nad Ali,
VOA News Ayaz Gul May 6, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Afghan army commandos, with the support of the international military coalition, conducted an overnight raid and freed more than 60 prisoners from a Taliban-run detention center in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday. A statement from NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Kabul said the illegal prison was located
KABUL, April 26 (Xinhua) — The Afghan National Army personnel had found and defused 26 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and landmines in two southern provinces, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. “The army bomb disposal teams discovered and defused 26 IEDs and landmines in Shorabak and Shah Wali Kot districts of Kandahar province and Nawbahar
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 19, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A group of Taliban insurgents staged a bomb and gun attack in the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 327, according officials. The assault targeted a building, which officials say houses a special unit of the Afghan security force working under
Tolo News: The Chief of Army Staff, General Qadam Shah Shahim, on Wednesday said the Taliban’s spring offensive announcement is nothing but propaganda that is supported by a number of foreign countries. Shahim has assured the people of Afghanistan that the Taliban’s operations will fail and no strategic region of the country will fall to the insurgent
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 11, 2016 At least 12 recruits in the Afghan National Army have been killed and dozens of people wounded by a Taliban suicide bomber who attacked the recruits’ bus near the eastern city of Jalalabad. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri confirmed the death toll in the April 11 suicide
Tolo News: Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday said that lack of coordination between security forces and a lack of cooperation between people and the Afghan National Police force members is the main reason for the increase in insecurity in the country. “People can say their pain to the security officials only
Tolo News: As the Afghan National Army (ANA) continues its offensives against insurgents in Qoshtepa district of Jawzjan province, soldiers on Friday managed to recover the heads of two ANA officers beheaded by the Taliban five days ago. Taliban captured ANA officers Rahmatullah and Fayaz from Qoshtepa five days ago and hanged their heads on a