The body of Sergeant Giorgi Kikadze, a Georgian soldier who was serving in Helmand province for ISAF, was found dumped in a vacant compound in Musa Qala in Helmand province on Saturday. Afghan security officials noted that the body bore signs of torture.
“Now having been offered this incontrovertible proof of the Taliban on both sides of the western border and al Qaeda being one and the same thing, one hopes the foolishness about ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Taliban can be relegated where it belongs: in the dustbin,” Daily Times writes.
Pakistan – EDITORIAL : Taliban diktat
Renewed fighting between Afghan army forces and Taliban fighters in the Kamdesh district in Nuristan left five militants dead and three wounded. Local residents in Logar condemned the Taliban for the recent murders of two day laborers. Family members of those killed in a 2009 airstrike in Kunduz have filed a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit […]
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Security forces killed five Taliban fighters in Nangarhar. The Taliban released a video of the execution of an Afghan soldier, and killed a policeman in an IED attack in Uruzgan.
The Pakistani Taliban leaders are seen sitting side by side. Hakeemullah Mehsud also said the Taliban are “willing to get our heads cut off for al Qaeda.”
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The Taliban killed three policemen in an assault on a checkpoint in Uruzgan and another in an attack on the governor’s convoy in Faryab. The NDS found a car bomb in Parwan.
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An Afghan policeman and two civilians were killed in a blast outside of Forward Operating Base Chapman, which is known to host CIA operations.
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An Afghan policeman killed five of his fellow officers in Jawzjan before joining the Taliban. A female police officer killed a US civilian adviser inside the Interior Ministry. The Taliban killed three civilians in Farah.
An Afghan policewoman assigned to the “gender and equality department” at the Interior Ministry is said to have shot an American civilian adviser in the head at close range.
The government released 36 prisoners from Bagram jail; the Helmand governor said he had taken up their cases with the High Peace Council. Joint forces arrested Haqqani Network leaders and operatives in Logar, Khost, and Paktika provinces. The foreign ministry rejected Taliban demands for the revision of the Afghan constitution and the formation of a […]
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