Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Nangarhar, Kunduz, and Herat. The Taliban killed an Australian soldier in the south. The UN may split the Taliban from al Qaeda on the terrorism list.
Significant forward momentum is imperiled by holes in US strategy and policy.
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The Taliban killed 11 Afghans in Logar, two police officers in Nimroz, and an ISAF soldier in the south; and kidnapped a teacher in Jawzjan. Twenty-three Taliban fighters in Badghis and 15 more in Kandahar reconciled with the government. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Ghazni, Zabul, Khost, […]
Gates seeks to keep pressure on Taliban
Steeper pullout is raised as option for Afghanistan
The Taliban killed two bank guards in a suicide attack in Wardak, and killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Two ISAF soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Kunduz, and Balkh.
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The Taliban claimed a “Mujahida sister” carried out a suicide attack in Kunar that killed three interpreters. The Taliban killed four ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south and two Afghans in bombings at a university in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, […]
Three interpreters for US forces are said to have been killed in an attack that was claimed by the Taliban.
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Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Uruzgan, Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Wardak, Nangarhar, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south, and killed a police chief and kidnapped a member of the provincial council in Bamyan.
With friends like these, who needs the Taliban?
The attack took place in Wana, an area controlled by Taliban and al Qaeda commander Mullah Nazir. Ilyas Kashmiri was among those killed.
Miqdad, a German citizen who is also known as “Abdullah the Essen,” was killed while fighting US forces in Baghlan in April 2011. He wanted “to kill Germans.”
Terrorists claim German jihadist dead in Afghanistan
Afghan suicide bomber ‘spent six years in London’