KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) — Four police personnel died following a shooting incident in a police checkpoint in Kandahar city, capital of Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar on Thursday, sources said. “A clash over an internal matter erupted between policemen manning a security checkpoint in Breshna Kot locality of the city at midday. Several
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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
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — Four police were killed and three others injured as a roadside bomb blast organized by militants struck a police van in Khan Abad district of the northern Kunduz province on Monday, a local official Qudratullah Safi said. “A mine planted by Taliban rebels on a road in Khan Abad
Press TV August 14, 2016 Nearly a dozen Afghan police officers have been killed and several others injured in a series of attacks by the Taliban militants in the country’s troubled north and east, local security officials say. In the first incident, at least two police officers were killed and nine others were wounded in
Press TV August 6, 2016 At least five Afghan police officers have been killed in an explosion that hit the Khak Jabar district in the southeastern part of Kabul Province. Among the victims of the late Friday incident was commander of the Public Order Police Forces (POPF) General Abdul Satar Hashemi, said the provincial governor’s
Press TV August 1, 2016 A massive Taliban attack on a hotel housing foreign contractors in the Afghan capital has ended seven hours after the assault began, officials say. One policeman lost his life and three others were wounded but none of the hotel staff or guests were hurt in the early morning attack. The incident ended with one
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 Carla Babb July 12, 2016 BAGRAM AIR FIELD, AFGHANISTAN—U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is in Afghanistan, just three days after international leaders agreed to support the war-torn country with about 12,000 NATO troops and funding for Afghan National Defense and Security Forces through 2020. Carter has met with President Ashraf Ghani and
VOA News Mohammad Habibzada July 10, 2016 The Afghan interior ministry says police casualties in the country have dropped around 40 percent compared to last year. Interior ministry deputy assistant General Mohammad Salem Ehsas told VOA’s Afghan service that police reform has played vital role saving the lives of Afghan men and women serving in