Press TV January 2, 2018 A top US commander has called for a more aggressive approach in the Afghan army against a normally quieter Taliban during the winter season, saying more American “trainers” would be deployed to the front lines to escalate the offensive. General Joseph Votel of the US Central Command, who leads forces
Press TV / December 13, 2017 Nearly two dozen female Afghan officers are receiving weapons training at a military academy in southern India. Media reports said Wednesday that the women had learned tactics and logistical and navigational skills at the academy in the southern Indian city of Chennai. This week they were taught how to
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 25, 2017 An Afghan official says militants have stormed a security post in the western province of Farah, killing nine soldiers and wounding four others. Provincial spokesman Naser Mehri said that the attack was launched late on October 24 and triggered a three-hour gunbattle. Afghan war planes were deployed and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 20, 2017 Afghan soldiers and police who train in the United States go “absent without leave,” or AWOL, at far higher rates than those of any other country, possibly jeopardizing efforts to assist Afghan security forces, a U.S. watchdog says. Out of a total of 320 foreign military trainees who
VOA News / October 3, 2017 Carla Babb WASHINGTON — Afghanistan security forces are fully engaged in offensive combat operations for the first time in their war against al-Qaida and Taliban militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday. “For the first time in 16 years, we have all six Afghan army corps on the offensive
Noor Zahid VOA News / August 20, 2017 Afghanistan’s elite Special Operations Forces officially transitioned from a division to a corps, as part of a four-year security plan aimed at vastly improving the country’s security forces. “Today, it is a special day because the success you all have achieved for this nation is exemplified here,”
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 26, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials confirmed Wednesday a Taliban attack has left at least 26 soldiers dead and 13 others wounded in the southern province of Kandahar. The overnight assault in the Khakrez district targeted an Afghan National Army, or ANA, base, an official statement quoted Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat
VOA News July 25, 2017 U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis says an inspector general’s report detailing as much as $28 million in overspending on uniforms for the Afghan National Army not only exposes waste, but also “serves as an example of a complacent mode of thinking.” The Pentagon chief’s comments came in a memo
Press TV June 22, 2017 At least 34 people have been killed and dozens wounded after a powerful blast hit a bank in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The Thursday blast targeted the New Kabul Bank branch, where members of Afghan security forces had gathered to collect their pay. Omar Zwak,
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