Khaama Press: Fourteen civilians including children and teenage boys were released from a prison run by the Taliban. Quoting the released prisoners, NDS said the Taliban insurgents were sexually abusing the detained teenage boy and children. Click here to read more (external link).
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, March 26 (Xinhua) — Some 10 militants had been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, an army spokesman said on Saturday. “Based on a confirmed tip-off, the air raid operation was conducted on a compound in Marja district Friday evening, killing 10 Taliban militants,” Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Rassoul
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 21, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The Afghan military has raided a Taliban-held prison and freed 16 hostages, including civilian and security personnel, in the restive southern province of Helmand, officials said Monday. A Defense Ministry spokesman, Dawlat Waziri, told VOA the overnight raid in the district of Gerishk also killed 17 Taliban insurgents,
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, March 21 (Xinhua) — One police was killed and nine people were wounded after a clash flared up in a local bazaar in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Monday, police said. “The gun firing took place after militants fired by silenced weapons on police at a checkpoint in Tirikh Nawar locality
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A helicopter belonging to NATO-led forces made a “hard” landing in southern Afghanistan Friday, but all personnel on board “have been recovered with no casualties,” a U.S. military spokesman said, dismissing Taliban claims of shooting down the aircraft. The incident happened in the restive Helmand province, the site
Khaama Press: At least 54 Taliban militants were killed in the latest wave of violence in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, the defense authorities said Wednesday. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said at least 3 militants were also wounded during the operations conducted in Khanshin and Nad-e-Ali districts. Click here to read more (external link). Related Security
VOA News Carla Babb March 11, 2016 PENTAGON—The Afghan air force will not reach necessary strength levels until 2020, according to a top U.S. general. General John Campbell, who ended his command of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan last week, told reporters Friday that some aircraft procured for the force would not arrive in
Khaama Press: The Afghan security forces managed to end the Taliban siege of a governmental compound in Greshk district of southern Helmand province by killing all 10 suicide bombers. The siege was ended after two days of resistance by the militants but the local officials said the Afghan forces carefully conducted the clearance operation to prevent
VOA News Carla Babb March 10, 2016 PENTAGON—The Taliban is fracturing in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, a known Taliban stronghold, a U.S. general in Kabul said Thursday. General Wilson Shoffner told reporters via telephone that the U.S. is seeing an “emergence of three separate Taliban groups” in northern Helmand, and that all three factions are largely
Khaama Press: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the raid was conducted in the vicinity of Lashkargah city by the Afghan armed forces from the 215th Maiwand Corps. MoD further added that 5 militants were also injured during the operation, while 2 others were arrested in a separate raid by the commandos of the Afghan National Army