Afghanistan
US forces to stay in Afghanistan after 2014
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Afghanistan
UNAMA Condemns Attacks in Eastern Afghan Provinces
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – MoI Seeks UN’s Help to Handle Pakistan
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Engineer-turned-militia leader takes on Taliban
Missing context on the tribal ‘Awakening’ in Panjwai
Recent coverage of the grassroots uprising against the Taliban in Kandahar province fails to account for a long-running tribal feud.
Suicide bomber kills 10 Afghan students, 2 US soldiers
The suicide bomber targeted a US and Afghan Local Police patrol as it passed by a high school in Paktia province. The US has stepped up raids against the Haqqani Network in Paktia.
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Thirteen Taliban fighters and four policemen were killed during clashes at police outposts in Nuristan. Afghan officials claimed that 33 Taliban fighters were killed in Badakhshan. ISAF helicopters gunned down six Haqqani Network fighters in Paktia.
Afghanistan
Afghan Forces to Lead All Military Operations in Few Weeks: Govt
Afghanistan
Denied visas, Afghans who translated for French army fear for their lives
Taliban denies involvement in suicide assault on Red Cross office
The Taliban’s claim “that it had no hand in the attack” is dubious at best.
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Taliban delegation visits Tehran to meet Iranian officials
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The governor of Paktika claimed that 61 Taliban fighters were killed during operations near the Pakistani border. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers and an ISAF civilian, and four Afghans in Uruzgan.
IMU, Taliban launched joint suicide assault in Panjshir
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claimed the attack under the banner of the Taliban’s spring offensive and said that it “is continuing its jihadi activities in the Khorasan region.”
Afghan NDS disrupts Kabul terror plot
Afghan intelligence forces stormed a militant safe house in Kabul City late on May 29. Afghan forces arrested six would-be suicide bombers and killed a seventh suspect. Suicide vests and other explosives were seized in the operation.
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NATO summit on Afghan pullout in 2014
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Corrupt Judiciary Making Nangarhar Unsafe: Provincial Governor
Afghanistan
The Taliban denied that its fighters attacked a Red Cross office in Jalalabad with suicide four bombers. The Red Cross has suspended work in Afghanistan. Members of an anti-Taliban uprising in Ghazni claimed their group killed 25 enemy fighters. Afghan forces killed seven Taliban fighters in Logar.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed three Taliban fighters in Kunduz while attempting to capture a Taliban commander involved in making suicide vests. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east. A US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar in 2012 will plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.
Al Qaeda
After vowing transparency, US mum on drone killing
Afghanistan
The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide assault on the governor’s compound in Panjshir; six memebrs of the assault team and a guard were killed. Three members of a suicide assault team and a guard were killed during an attack on a Red Cross office in Jalalabad.
Taliban launch second suicide assault in Jalalabad
The target of the attack was the International Committee of the Red Cross; one security guard was killed.
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Foreign insurgents sneak into Logar
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Afghanistan – Religious Scholars Term Suicide Attack As ‘Haram’
Taliban suicide assault team storms governor’s compound in Panjshir
While the attack had little military significance, the Taliban have demonstrated that they are able to strike in one of the most secured and peaceful areas of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Two Taliban infiltrators killed seven Afghan policemen in Kandahar. The Taliban killed five bodyguards for a wireless communications company executive in an IED attack in Kabul, three soldiers in Helmand, three policemen in Jawzjan and three more in Kandahar. The secretary for the chairman of the senate was gunned down in Nangarhar.
Taliban kill 7 Afghan policemen in green-on-green attack
Two policemen who defected to the Taliban months ago returned to their unit, were welcomed back, and promptly murdered their colleagues.
ISAF targets al Qaeda leader in Kunar
The target of the raid was a senior al Qaida leader who serves as an operations chief, trainer, and facilitator in the east.
Afghanistan
Afghan forces avail air support in uninhibited areas: Katz
Afghanistan
Karzai Requests The Transfer of Guantanamo Detainees
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Afghan TV Throws Spotlight on Abuse of Police Officers