Press TV March 11, 2017 Eight Afghan policemen have been killed in their base by “infiltrators” in an attack claimed by the Taliban in Shinkia district of the southern province of Zabul. “The infiltrators first poisoned their colleagues and then shot them dead,” said provincial spokesman Gul Islam Seyal on Saturday. The attackers fled the
Press TV March 5, 2017 Taliban militants have assassinated a police chief in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab Province, police say. Nasim Qateh, the police chief of Faryab’s Almar district, was killed by a magnetic bomb attached to his car, Karim Yuresh, a spokesman for the provincial police chief, said Sunday. Yuresh said a second police officer,
Press TV February 28, 2017 At least 11 Afghan policemen have been killed by a member of the Taliban militant group who had infiltrated the ranks of the police force in southern Afghanistan. The assault reportedly took place late on Monday night in the vicinity of the 2nd police district in Lashkargah City, the provincial
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 25, 2017 Afghan officials say 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander have been killed in an attack in the northern province of Zawzjan. Mohammad Reza Ghafori, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the officers were ambushed on February 24 as they were coming out of a
Tolo News: Pakistani stationed military units in areas along the Durand Line two days ago and wanted to launch a cross-border operation on Afghan territory, said Border Police Commander Colonel Mohammad Ayub Husainkhail. This planned action followed an earlier attack by insurgents on a shrine in Pakistan. Husainkhail said the Afghan forces would never allow the
PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — Taliban militants shot dead two former policemen in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Wednesday, police spokesman Mahfozullah Akbari confirmed. According to the official, both victims had served as local policemen and were gunned by Taliban in Khalozai area of Baghlan-e-Markazi district in Baghlan province Wednesday morning. Taliban
Ayaz Gul VOA News February 3, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Officials in northwestern Afghanistan say a suspected Taliban insurgent has killed at least eight police personnel just days after surrendering and joining the force. The overnight massacre took place at a security outpost in the Almar district in the province of Faryab. Insurgent took weapons Area police
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 20, 2017 ISLAMABAD — The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan has staged a major overnight battlefield assault in a southern province, killing at least 16 police personnel and capturing two outposts. A local security official told VOA on Friday the fighting erupted in the district of Maiwand in Kandahar, saying Afghan forces
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 24, 2016 Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says that security forces have carried out nine military operations across the country over the past 24 hours, killing at least 30 militants. Spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said on December 24 that the operations — including air strikes — targeted Taliban militants as well as fighters
Reuters: Afghan police and health officials raided cafes and restaurants in Kabul on Sunday, confiscating shisha water pipes and paraphernalia in a campaign to halt “debauchery and vulgarity.” Critics say the campaign will only distract police from the Afghan capital’s deteriorating security situation, while doing little to change the pervasive smoking culture in the long-term. Click