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Uruzgun: Talib op center airstruck, Afghan SF storm Talib Red Unit hideout

2019-03-17

Precision airstrikes destroy Taliban operational center in Uruzgan [KhaamaPress] An operational center of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... was destroyed in multiple precision Arclight airstrikes which were carried out in Tarinkot city, the quiet provincial capital of Uruzgan province. “Nine Taliban fighters were killed and one militant operations center destroyed by airstrikes in Tarin Kot district, Uruzgan province, March 15, 2019,” informed military sources said Saturday. The sources further added “After multiple hours of monitoring and tracking Taliban fighters entering a building known for staging and planning future attacks against Afghan civilians, the building was destroyed by multiple precision airstrikes.” The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the airstrikes so far. Uruzgan is among the relatively volatile provinces in South of Afghanistan. The anti-government armed militants are active in some of its districts and often attempt to carry out attacks against the government and security institutions. Afghan Special Forces storm Taliban Red Unit commander’s hideout in Uruzgan The Special Forces of Afghan Intelligence or National Directorate of Security (NDS) stormed a hideout of a commander of the Red Unit of Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Uruzgan killing at least 22 militants and confiscating large amount of weapons, munitions, and explosives. According to a statement released by NDS, the raid was conducted in the vicinity of Tarinkot city, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province. The statement further added that the hideout belonged to a commander of the Red Unit of Taliban identified as Mullah Aminullah. The National Directorate of Security also added that 22 militants were killed during the raid and another suspect identified as Abdul Hadi son of Dost Mohammad was arrested. In addition to this, the NDS Special Forces confiscated 50 kilograms of explosives, a Dshk heavy machine gun, a PKM machine gun, 4 improvised explosive devices, 6 hand grenades, a radio set, 2 military uniforms, a Fielder type vehicle, a motorcycle, and hundreds of rounds of munitions. ...and a partridge in a pear tree. The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the operation so far.

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Mullah Rapes 10-Year-Old Girl in Kunduz

2014-05-03

[Tolo News] On Friday, local officials in northern Kunduz province said a 10-year-old girl was raped by a mullah in a garden in the capital of the province two days ago. The girl has been taken to a hospital in Kunduz city and mullah Aminullah was incarcerated Please don't kill me! . The victim's family sent her to learn how to read and recite the Koran from Mullah Aminullah. The girl was weeping while explaining how it unfolded. "[He] forcefully took me outside of the mosque and tied my hands, legs and mouth," she cried. "I was yelling 'be afraid of God,' he continued to rape me." As she was crying reliving the rape, she said that at the end of the incident mullah Aminullah threatened her saying, "if you tell your family about this, I will kill them." The victim's mother said she sent her daughter to the mosque to receive a religious study. She added that mullah Aminullah arrived to their village two months ago. Officials at the governmental hospital in Kunduz confirmed that the girl was raped. The tragic incident has followed major condemnations; Kunduz Provincial Women Affairs Department head, Nadira Giya, has asked the legal and judicial branches to severely punish the rapist. "Those who were involved in this should be punished to serve as a lesson for others," Giya said. Just last week, a man named Sayed Ahmad had his ears and nose cut off by relatives in northern Baghlan province after he reportedly raped his young female cousin. Ahmad's aunt said that he raped her daughter three months ago. She said her and her husband were the ones who severed his ears and nose as punishment. They have both been taken into custody by provincial police.

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Residents flee as Taliban brace for Afghan offensive

2008-06-18

Thousands of residents fled villages near Kandahar as Taliban militants blew up bridges on Tuesday ahead of a looming offensive by Afghan and NATO troops, officials and locals said. A Taliban commander said hundreds of fighters had hunkered down in troubled Arghandab district since late Monday, with many of them having escaped from the southern city's main jail at the weekend in a brazen insurgent attack. The wave of unrest in the strategic region has piled pressure on President Hamid Karzai, who threatened at the weekend that Afghan forces could attack militants on the soil of neighbouring Pakistan. 'Hundreds of families have left, we requested them to leave. Around 300 to 400 Taliban are on the move in the district, they are not stationed in one location,' defence ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi told AFP. The Taliban had blown up one bridge 'so far' in the district, he said, adding that hundreds of Afghan soldiers had been deployed in Arghandab 'to clear the insurgents from the area.' The interior ministry said army reinforcement had been sent to the area. Afghan army General Aminullah Patyali said the rebels had reportedly destroyed several bridges and laid many landmines. One of the mines exploded, killing two Taliban, he said. The US-led coalition said that a joint patrol with Afghan forces saw no massive presence of rebels in the district. The 'forces completed a patrol ... today and found no evidence that militants control the area,' it said in a statement. Meanwhile, three security guards hired by a road construction company were killed when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Spin Boldak district late Tuesday, Kandahar provincial police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib said. Three guards were killed and another three were wounded in the blast,' he said. Residents fleeing Arghandab, which is surrounded by pomegranate groves and agricultural fields, said the Taliban had seized much of the area and that many people had abandoned their harvests. 'There were Taliban everywhere. They have destroyed all of the small bridges leading to the villages,' Hazarat Jan told AFP on the road to Kandahar as he led a donkey carrying his sick mother. An AFP reporter said dozens of NATO and Afghan security forces had set up checkposts searching vehicles and people. At one checkpoint, policeman Sardar Mohammad said about 700 families amounting to at least 3,000 people had fled. Abdul Mohammad, another resident, said that helicopters from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force 'dropped leaflets on our village, asking us to leave the village before they launch an operation.' NATO civilian spokesman Mark Laity confirmed the leaflet drop but said the villagers were asked to stay in their houses until Afghan security forces remove the Taliban. The Taliban build-up comes days after more than 1,000 prisoners including rebels escaped from Kandahar prison after suicide bombers attacked the main gate. A militant who claimed to be a group commander in Arghandab said that 'dozens' of the escaped prisoners were taking part in the Taliban's activities in the village. 'We're about 400 to 500. There are some Taliban who escaped the jail who have joined us,' Mullah Aminullah told AFP by telephone. There was no way of independently confirming his identity or location. 'We have planted lots of mines on the roads and destroyed small bridges leading to these villages,' Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP by telephone that the rebels held most of the area apart from the district centre.

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