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Afghanistan

Taliban militants detonate 4 car bombs, loses 25 fighters in failed attack in Kandahar

2019-07-01

[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops killed 25 bully boyz during an intense battle in Maruf district of Kandahar on Saturday night. The Ministry of Interior in a statement said the Talibs launched a major offensive on Maruf district compound by detonating four boom-mobiles. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the interior ministry said the security forces effectively responded to the assault and killed 25 bully boyz during an intense shootout. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... the Kandahar Police Chief Gen. Tadin Khan Achakzai confirmed that Talibs detonated boom-mobiles during an attack on Maruf district compound. Gen. Tadin Khan further added that some security personnel also bit the dust during the attack. Ghani Slams Taliban Attack That Killed Eight Civilians [ToloNews] President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... in a statement on Sunday condemned the Taliban’s bombings in the southern province of Kandahar that killed at least 11 people, eight of them the employees of the provincial office of the Independent Election Commission. The attack was carried out by four attackers who drove explosive-laden Humvees, targeting the district governor’s compound in Maroof district of Kandahar province, the provincial police chief Gen. Tadeen Khan said. Khan said the attack was carried out at early 2 am on Sunday. It was followed by few hours of clashes between other attackers and the security forces, he added. Hours after the attack, the provincial police spokesman Jamal Barikzai said that the attack left 11 dead and 27 others wounded. He said that 17 Taliban fighters were killed in the attack. Ghani said in the statement that attacking a civilian institution which is working for institutionalizing democracy in the country, is an inhuman and unforgivable act. However, he did not mention the Taliban in his statement. “Terrorists are targeting civilians and public institutions to hide their defeat on the battlefields,” Ghani said, adding that “but they should know that they will not reach their notorious ends by such acts.” Maroof is a remote and the most insecure district in Kandahar and more parts of it are under Taliban’s influence. Al Ahram adds: Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman said the fighters killed election commission employees and 57 members of the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF). They also captured 11 others with five vehicles and a large cache of weapons during the attack at the district centre. But Afghan government officials said the Taliban had exaggerated the casualty figures.

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Taliban storm security posts in west Afghanistan, kill 21

2019-01-07

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents have stormed security posts in west Afghanistan, killing 21 police and pro-government militia members, officials said on Monday, the latest in a surge of attacks that has cast doubt on tentative steps toward talks. The Taliban attacked the checkpoints in two different parts of Badghis province, which is on the border with Turkmenistan, late on Sunday, provincial officials said. Abdul Aziz Bek, head of the Badghis provincial council, said 14 policemen and seven members of pro-government militias were killed, while nine were injured. A second government official, Jamshid Shahabi, a spokesman for the Badghis provincial governor, said more than 15 Taliban militants were killed and 10 wounded in the clashes. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, among the most deadly in the province in many months. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, said in statement they killed 34 members of the security forces and pro-government militias and seized many weapons and ammunition. Leaders of the hardline Islamist group and the U.S. officials are scheduled to meet this month to discuss the withdrawal of foreign forces and a possible ceasefire.

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Taliban blow up Afghan army outpost in Kandahar, killing five soldiers, police say

2019-01-03

Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters detonated explosives planted in a tunnel below an Afghan military outpost, killing five soldiers, a police official said on Wednesday. Six soldiers were maimed in the attack on Tuesday in the Maiwand district of the southern province of Kandahar, police front man Mohammad Ashraf Watandost said. A Taliban front man, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, said the krazed killers, fighting to overthrow the government and reimpose strict Islamic law after their 2001 ouster, had killed or maimed 35 soldiers and destroyed a large cache of weapons and ammunition. Afghan border security forces separately thwarted an attack on Italian military advisers at a paramilitary base in the western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... on Wednesday. Noorullah Qadri, the commander of 207 Zafar military corps, said two attackers who had infiltrated the border security forces tried to kill the Italians. "The Italian nationals escaped uninjured. One attacker was bumped off immediately and the other was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! ," said Qadri. The Italian forces are part of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led Resolute Support Mission focused on training, advising and assisting the Afghan forces in four western provinces. Italia has 895 soldiers attached to Resolute Support. Officials at the Italian embassy in Kabul were not immediately available for comment.

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Taliban horse-trade for body of police chief killer

2018-11-06

[DAWN] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... is demanding the body of an assassin who rubbed out a powerful Afghan police chief, in return for the remains of 13 people killed in an army helicopter crash in territory controlled by the turbans. Tribal elders in the restive western province of Farah bordering Iran have been handling negotiations for the exchange of bodies for nearly a week. So far only 12 of the 25 people killed in the helicopter accident in Taliban-controlled Anar Dara district on October 31 have been given to Afghan authorities. Officials blamed bad weather for the crash, but the Taliban claimed its fighters brought down the aircraft. "We want to hand over the bodies from the helicopter crash to their respective families via the International Committee for the Red Thingy, but on condition that the enemy hand over the body of martyred fighter Zabihullah Abu Dajana, who killed Commander Abdul Raziq, to his family," Taliban front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said in WhatsApp message. Among the bodies returned were those of provincial councillor Jamila Amini, civilians and businessmen, Farah governor front man Nasir Mehri told AFP. "No military officials have been recovered yet," Mehri said. Farah police front man Mohibullah Mohib confirmed that 12 bodies had been recovered thanks to the efforts of tribal elders. "The rest of them are still with the enemy," he added. The bodies still in Taliban hands include those of the deputy army corps commander for western Afghanistan and the head of the Farah provincial council.

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Pakistan rejects Afghanistan's 'baseless' allegations on Kandahar attack

2018-10-25

[DAWN] Pakistain on Wednesday rejected Kabul's "baseless" and "unfounded allegations" regarding a recent attack in Kandahar, in which three top Afghan officials were killed when their own guards opened fire on them. The FO's comments come a day after Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. alleged that the attack on slain Kandahar police commander Gen Abdul Raziq was planned in Pakistain, Tolo News reported. "I want to say that this conspiracy was plotted in Pakistain. So Pakistain should give us the criminals so that we can bring them to justice," Ghani claimed. A Foreign Office (FO) statement, without referring to specific statements, said: "Pakistain rejects baseless and unfounded allegations regarding the latest Kandahar attacks. No hard evidence or intelligence-related information has been shared to date with Pakistain to substantiate such claims." The FO pointed out that "it would have been more appropriate to invoke the relevant arrangement" under the Afghanistan-Pakistain Action Plan for Peace and Stability "to mutually and effectively address and investigate any such unfortunate incidents... instead of resorting to media blame game which is contrary to the seven principles of cooperation agreed between the two sides earlier this year." A Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi who grabbed credit for the Oct 18 attack earlier told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that United States Gen Scott Miller, commander of US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... troops in Afghanistan ‐ who had escaped the attack unharmed ‐ was the intended target.

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HIMARS strike killed 50 Taliban leaders in Helmand, claims US Military

2018-05-31

[Khaama Press] The US Military officials claim that the latest rocket artillery strike in southern Helmand province has left at least 50 senior Taliban leaders dead. Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, quoted by Military Times said a weapon system known as the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which is capable of firing GPS-guided rockets, destroyed a command-and-control position that was a known meeting place for high-level Taliban leaders. Accordi g to Lt. Col. O’Donnell, the rocket artillery strike left at least 50 leaders dead. He also added that because of the large number of leaders killed and their involvement in a range of attack planning, the impact of the HIMARS strike “will be felt beyond Helmand province.” “Task Force-Southwest, under U.S. Forces-Afghanistan authorities, confirmed a ground-based rocket artillery strike using the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, against a command and control node for high-level Taliban leaders in Musa Qala district, May 24,” the US Forces in Afghanistan said in a statement last week. The statement further added that the structure was a known meeting location for prominent Taliban leaders, where they planned and facilitated attacks against Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, who are supporting election security in the area. Taliban reacts at deadly HIMARS artillery strike in Helmand province [Khaama Press] The Taliban group in Afghanistan reacted to the deadly HIMARS artillery strike in southern Helmand province, as usual, claiming that no leader or militant of the group has been killed or wounded in the strike. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claims that the strike targeted two houses in Mosa Qala district, leaving five civilians dead and three others wounded.

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Afghanistan

Letter by Mullah Omar’s son: Myth or Depiction of deep rift among Taliban leaders

2018-04-01

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Mullah Yaqoob, the son of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group founder and ex-supreme leader, Mullah Mohammaer Omar, regarding the deadly attack January in Kabul city, reveals deep rift among the Taliban group leadership. The authenticity of the letter cannot be independently verified but it carries an official tamp of the Taliban group with the official designation of Mullah Yaqoob as the deputy Taliban chief for the military affairs. The letter states that the attack near Jamhoriat hospital with an ambulance has not only resulted in massive civilian casualties but resulted into depiction of a negative image of Taliban on domestic and international level besides resulting into reduced support to the movement. Mullah Yaqoob states in his letter that the current Taliban supreme leader Sheikh Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada ...Former deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour, now The Big Man Himself... and the military commission did not consult with him prior to conducting the attack. According to Mullah Yaqoob, the attack was carried out based on the instructions of Haqqani network leader, insisting that he has always rejected such attacks that results into growing hatred among the people regarding the Taliban group. He suggested that the Taliban leader Mullah Akhundzada should refrain from such attacks in the future results more into the defamation of the Taliban as compared to the benefits the group gains from such attacks. The Taliban group had claimed the responsibility for the attack which left more than 100 dead and hundreds more maimed. The group called the attack a major breakthrough claiming that heavy casualties were incurred to the police forces after the jacket wallahs managed to infiltrated through several check posts in the city to conduct the attack. This is not the first reports have emerged regarding internal rift among the Taliban leadership after the confirmation of the death of the group’s supreme leader Mullh Omar. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... a front man for the Taliban group Qari Yousuf Ahmadi blames the intelligence circles for the circulation of the letter although the Afghan officials have not commented in this regard so far.

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Video depicts massive explosion as B-52s bomb Taliban mines factory

2017-11-26

Fifteen second video can be seen at the link. [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US military in Afghanistan has released a new video of the ongoing air campaign against the Taliban ...Arabic for students... purportedly showing the destruction of a mines factory. The video shows the Arclight airstrike on Taliban explosives compound in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, triggering a massive kaboom after bombs were dropped, apparently by B-52 bombers. According to the US military, the enormous secondary kaboom is evidence of stockpiles of explosives the Taliban would have used against the Afghan people. The growing Arclight airstrikes have apparently put the Taliban into a state of panic with a front man of the group claiming last week that only civilians are being killed or maimed in the ongoing campaign. A front man for the Taliban group Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the claims of inflicting heavy losses to the Taliban fighters are false. Ahmadi further added that only the civilians have been killed and their houses have been destroyed in the Arclight airstrikes. The commander of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led Resolute Support and US forces in Afghanistan General John Nicholson said Monday that the U.S. and Afghan forces conducted a series of strikes over the past 24 hours against Taliban drug labs, to target the revenue streams of the terrorists. Gen. Nicholson further added that the combined operations struck seven Taliban drug labs and one command-and-control node in northern Helmand province. "Specifically, in striking northern Helmand and the drug enterprises there, we’re hitting the Taliban where it hurts, which is their finances," he said.

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US strikes on Taliban opium labs won't work, say Afghan farmers

2017-11-24

[AlAhram] As U.S. and Afghan forces pound Taliban ...Arabic for students... drug factories this week, farmers in the country's largest opium producing-province and narcotics experts say the strategy just repeats previous failed efforts to stamp out the trade. U.S. Army General John Nicholson, who heads NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led forces in Afghanistan, announced on Monday a new strategy of attacking opium factories, saying he wanted to hit the Taliban "where it hurts, in their narcotics financing". Critics say the policy risks further civilian casualties and turning large swathes of the population dependent on poppy cultivation against the Afghan government. "The Taliban will not be affected by this as much as ordinary people," said Mohammad Nabi, a poppy farmer in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , the heartland of opium production. "Farmers are not growing poppies for fun. If factories are closed and businesses are gone, then how will they provide food for their families?" How did they do so before they turned to opium in recent years? Opium production in Afghanistan reached record highs this year, up 87 percent, according to the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said last week that output of opium from poppy seeds in Afghanistan, the world's main source of heroin, stood at around 9,000 metric tons in 2017, worth an estimated $1.4 billion on leaving the farms. In Helmand, cultivation area increased 79 percent. See? More farmers taking up the trade, and those previously involved increased their acreage devoted to the crop. So they can go back to whatever they did before. Publicising the new strategy, which he said was open-ended, Nicholson showed one video of an F-22 fighter jet dropping 250-pound bombs on two buildings, emphasising that a nearby third building was left unscathed. U.S. troops have long been accused of causing unnecessary collateral damage and civilian deaths. The United States says it takes every precaution to avoid civilian casualties. The four-star general emphasised that farmers were not the targets. "They are largely compelled to grow the poppy and this is kind of a tragic part of the story," said Nicholson. "WHACK-A-MOLE" Experts, however, question whether the new strategy will have an impact on Taliban financing. Of course they do. Or ar least the experts quoted by the journalists do. Any other experts are like trees falling unheard in the forest. "All these things have been tried before and not produced effective results. If they had, we wouldn't be where we are now," said Orzala Nemat, director of the Kabul-based Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, which has been researching the country's drug trade for a decade and a half. Another analyst said it was simply a futile game of "whack-a-mole." Those familiar with the drug industry in Afghanistan said it would only take three or four days to replace a lab, which generally has a low sunk-cost. Get inside their replacement loop, and that will change. They also say it was not just the Taliban involved in Afghanistan's drug trade. "Drugs are elemental to the political economy of Afghanistan, to those who rule and to those who oppose that rule," said one analyst, asking not to be named. Prior to being ousted by U.S.-led forces in 2001, the Taliban virtually eliminated the trade, saying it was forbidden by Islam. And then, realizing how much money there was to be made, they restarted it under their own control. This explains their current involvement. The United States and its Western allies, the Afghan government and United Nations have made repeated efforts since to eradicate poppy cultivation, including encouraging farmers to cultivate alternatives such as saffron, spraying poppy fields with herbicide, and destroying labs. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... they have not made any serious headway in stemming the rise in drug production. They haven’t been consistently serious about it. The issue underlines problems faced by the Afghan government and its allies, as they seek to cut off a major source of financing for the Taliban and stem the flow of drugs to Europe. The Taliban said that U.S. forces were mistaken in their targeting and were hitting civilians. Yes, but they are the Taliban’s civilians, which makes them a good deal less civilian than other civilians. "There are no drug producing factories in these areas. Invading Americans are carrying out these attacks based on false information and to make propaganda, which most of its victims are civilians," said Taliban front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi on Wednesday. That is one perspective, to be sure. Although World Bank projections show Afghanistan's economy picking up modestly, the improvement is more than offset by population growth, leaving many in rural areas saying they have no alternative to growing poppies. Educating the girls will go far to fix that problem. Making birth control available will take care of the rest. "The government must provide jobs so people can feed their families and survive," said poppy farmer Haji Daoud in Sangin, Helmand. "It should provide security and infrastructure."

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2 ANA bases under attack in Faryab

2017-09-16

A number of soldiers stationed in Ghormach district in the northern Faryab province have claimed that they are under siege by militants over the past two months and that they are faced with ‘serious challenges including lack of food’. The military bases are located in Abgarmak and Chinaee regions in the district, soldiers told TOLOnews on Friday. The Ministry of Defense said the route to the Ghormach district is closed and that they support the battalions from air. According to the Defense Ministry, efforts are underway to break the siege and open the road to the district and to the bases. “We provide their food, clothes, ammunition and other needs from air. But the basis of addressing the problem is to open the route and we are working on it,” Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said. “Weak management of military commanders and issues around helping the personnel on time are questionable and worrying,” said Mirdad Nijrabi, head of the internal security committee of the Wolesi Jirga, the Lower House of Parliament. Meanwhile, dozens of Faryab residents at a gathering on Friday slammed the local officials and the leaders of the National Unity Government over ‘negligence in maintaining security of the province’. “All Afghans are tired of your boring games and you (government leaders) know that we have realized your tricks. The people know that you are sacrificing a nation for your own interests,” head of Faryab civil society organization, Sayed Zainuddin Abidi, said. Ghormach was fallen to the Taliban at least one month ago. Security forces however managed to retake the center of the district. Reports indicate that important parts of the district including the routes ending to this part of Faryab are under Taliban’s control. More from al-Manar A suicide attacker driving an explosives-filled vehicle slammed into a convoy of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, with reports of several soldiers wounded. The Taliban claimed the attack which Kandahar provincial governor spokesman Fazal Bari Baryalai told AFP “totally destroyed” one of the vehicles carrying Romanian soldiers in Daman district. Afghan and NATO officials could not confirm reports of casualties but in a WhatsApp message to journalists Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said “seven invading forces” were killed. The militants routinely exaggerate battlefield claims. Provincial police chief General Abdul Raziq told AFP the scene had been cordoned off by foreign forces. The Taliban’s latest assault follows the militant group’s pledge to turn Afghanistan into a “graveyard” for foreign forces after US President Donald Trump’s announcement to keep American boots on the ground indefinitely. Earlier this month two Taliban suicide bombers launched separate attacks around Bagram Airfield, America’s largest base in the country, that wounded several US soldiers and civilians. One of those attacks was in direct response to a US leaflet drop in the northern province of Parwan, where Bagram is located, that offended many Muslims in the deeply religious country. The leaflet depicted a lion chasing a white dog — the same color as the Taliban’s flag — with the Islamic statement of faith — “There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the messenger of Allah” — superimposed on its body. Dogs are seen as unclean creatures by some Muslims and the association of Islam with a canine angered many people and sparked protests. Source: AFP

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Taliban militants accused of more sexual crimes in South of Afghanistan

2017-09-14

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The growing sexual abuse accusations involving Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... forces of Evil have sparked furor among the Taliban ranks as they call it a move aimed at defaming the group’s armed efforts. The latest accusation against the group has emerged from southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan suggesting a group of Taliban forces of Evil were tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! after intruding into a house in Marjah district. The reports claim that the Taliban forces of Evil had stormed into the house to sexually abuse the family. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the Taliban group front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, reacted at the reports and said the enemies of the group are attempting to defame them as they are in panic and have been defeated despite receiving support from the US forces in the ground and from the air. He also pointed out towards the accusations emerged from southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan suggesting the abuse of a young boy by the Taliban forces of Evil in Chora district. This comes as the Taliban forces of Evil are often accused of abusing the young men among their ranks and numerous such reports have emerged suggesting the rape of the jacket wallahs before they are sent for the attacks as claimed by the Afghan intelligence. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... incidents involving Taliban forces of Evil storming into a house to abuse a family have rarely been reported.

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Taliban rejects Herat mosque bombing as casualties toll climbs to 93 people

2017-08-03

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group in Afghanistan has rejected role in a deadly suicide kaboom on a mosque in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan. A front man of the group Qari Yousuf Ahmadi has said the group has links with the attack on Jawadia mosque in Herat city. The local officials are saying that the corpse count from the deadly attack has climbed to at least 29 people while 64 others are maimed. Provincial governor’s front man Jilani Farhad said the attack was carried out by two jacket wallahs who initially started spraying the prayer participants with bullets before detonating their explosives. The attack on the mosque sparked furor among the local residents who also started to attack a check post located close to an area where the incident took place.

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