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.Bakhtar News Agency - Nineteen Armed Oppositions Killed
Nineteen Armed Oppositions Killed
Monday, July 18, 2011 Kabul (BIA) Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers killed 19 armed oppositions during security patrols in Paktia, Uruzgan, Helmand, Balkh, Khost and Zabul provinces.
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers killed 19 armed oppositions during security patrols in Paktia, Uruzgan, Helmand, Balkh, Khost and Zabul provinces. The National Defense ministry press office told BIA, ANA soldiers during their patrols killed 19 armed oppositions and destroyed two bases of them. They also discovered tens mine, four hundred bullets, three cooker pressure full of explosive materials, three DC-canon shells and a 21-Kg gallon full of explosive material. According to another report, three ANA soldiers injured in a mine explosion in Darzak area Keshek Kohna district of Herat province.Comment
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.Defense.gov News Article: Afghan-led Force Finds Enemy Mortars in KandaharAfghan-led Force Finds Enemy Mortars in Kandahar
An Afghan-led combined security force in the Kandahar district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province today found and destroyed a cache of 103 mortar rounds, military officials reported.
In operations throughout Afghanistan yesterday:
-- An Afghan-led combined force detained numerous suspected insurgents and confiscated grenades, an assault rifle with several magazines, a rifle and a chest rack yesterday while searching for a Haqqani terrorist network leader in Khost province’s Terayzai district who is responsible for coordinating attacks against the Afghan army.
-- An Afghan-led force detained a suspected insurgent in Takhar province’s Bangi district while searching for an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader who directs insurgents and is a liaison to the Taliban network, other insurgent leaders in Pakistan and IMU contacts in Afghanistan and Iran.
-- In Balkh province’s Chimtal district, an Afghan-led force detained several suspected insurgents while searching for a Taliban leader who obtains supplies and collects taxes to pay for Taliban operations in the province’s western region.
-- In Kandahar province’s Panjwai district, an Afghan-led force detained several suspected insurgents while searching for a Taliban leader who leads roadside-bomb attacks and moves bomb-making materials in eastern Panjwai.
-- Also in Panjwai, a combined force detained a suspected insurgent during a clearance operation.
-- An Afghan-led force captured a Taliban leader and two other suspected insurgents in Zabul province’s Shah Joy district. The leader coordinates attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
-- In Helmand province’s Nahr-e Saraj district, a combined force detained several suspected insurgents while looking for a Taliban leader who directs attacks in the district and provides shelter, food, equipment and guidance to Taliban fighters.
-- An Afghan-led force detained two suspected insurgents while searching for a Taliban organizer in Paktika province’s Zurmat district. The leader advises insurgents in the province’s Mata Khan district.
-- A Haqqani network leader and two of his associates were detained during an overnight operation in Khost province’s Sabari district. The Haqqani leader coordinated roadside-bomb and direct-fire attacks against the Afghan army.
In July 16 operations:
-- An Afghan-led security force killed more than 10 insurgents and detained a suspected insurgent in an intelligence-driven search for a Taliban leader and his network in Nangarhar province’s Kuz Kunar district. The leader conducts attacks against Afghan government officials and security forces, and works as an organizer in the district. When the force began assessing the targeted building, insurgents fired on them with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. The force returned fire, killing several insurgents. The Afghan-led force, using native languages, called for remaining insurgents to come out peacefully, but they continued their assault. The security force called in an air strike, which killed several more insurgents and destroyed the building.
-- An Afghan-led force detained two suspected insurgents in Takhar province’s Taloqan district, while searching for an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan organizer who coordinates suicide attacks and reportedly was planning imminent attacks.
-- In Helmand province’s Nahr-e Saraj district, an Afghan-led force detained several suspected insurgents while looking for a Taliban leader who takes part in roadside-bomb and small-arms attacks against Afghan forces.
-- A coalition patrol found two mortars, 109 mortar rounds, 20 rocket-propelled grenades, 23 antipersonnel mines, an antitank mine, 32 grenades, 30 fuses and several meters of detonation cord in Khost province’s Tanai district.
-- In Logar province’s Muhammad Aghah district, a coalition patrol found about 1,200 pounds of potassium chloride and a jug filled with 40 pounds of homemade explosives.
-- An Afghan-led force in Khost province’s Sabari district captured a Haqqani network organizer and two of his associates. The organizer moved Haqqani fighters and finances, and had communication ties with Haqqani members in Miriam Shah, Pakistan.
In July 15 operations:
-- An air weapons team killed two insurgents when they posed a threat to a combined patrol that was targeting a drug lab in Helmand province’s Baghran district. The lab yielded 2,205 pounds of calcium oxide, three opium presses, two drying vats and narcotics-production equipment.
-- An Afghan-led force killed two insurgents, including a Taliban leader, in Balkh province’s Chahar Bolak district. The three were killed after they fired on the combined force. The Taliban leader was responsible for roadside-bomb and small-arms attacks against Afghan forces and organized roadside-bomb attacks in the Chimtal and Chahar Bolak districts. The force confiscated grenades, assault rifles, bomb components and chest racks.
-- In Nangarhar province’s Surkh Rod district, an Afghan-led force detained numerous suspected insurgents while searching for a Taliban leader who directs roadside-bomb and direct-fire attacks against Afghan forces and provides insurgents with weapons throughout the province’s Khugyani district.
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One Taliban local leader killed in N. Afghanistan
A Taliban local leader was killed when Afghan and NATO-led forces carried out a security operation in country's northern Baghlan province, the NATO said on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.
"A combined Afghan and coalition security force killed a Taliban leader and detained one suspected insurgent during a security operation in Pul-e Khumri district, Baghlan province, yesterday," said a press release issued by NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) here on Tuesday.
The deceased Taliban leader, namely Zalmi, was directed a cell of fighters who conducted roadside bomb attacks against the local Afghan civilians and Afghan National Security Forces, the press release further said.
"Following the engagement, one of Zalmi's associates was detained for further questioning."the release said.
Taliban insurgents, as a major anti-government group, have yet to make comments.
The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the militant group announced to launch spring offensive from May 1 against Afghan and NATO-led troops stationed in Afghanistan.
A total of 19 people including five policemen were killed when Taliban carried out multiple suicide attacks in Charikar, the provincial capital of Parwan province 55 km north of capital Kabul on Sunday.
Six suicide attackers were also killed while 37 more people with majority of them civilians sustained injuries in the suicide blasts and gun fighting that took place in Parwan's governor office building on Sunday.
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.Bakhtar News Agency - Terrorists Hold In Maidan-Wardak
Terrorists Hold In Maidan-Wardak
Monday, August 15, 2011 Kabul (BIA) The officials of national security directorate have captured two terrorists from vicinities of Maidan-Wardak province today.
The officials of national security directorate have captured two terrorists from vicinities of Maidan-Wardak province today. According to NSD press office to BIA, the arrested terrorists Qari Joma Gul and Qari Hamidullah are residents of Baghlan province, have recently returned from Pakistan to Maidan-Wardak for terrorist and destructive activities. They were captured by the officials of national security directorate of that province, said the source. Translated By Suraya-YarzadaComment
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.Bakhtar News Agency - NDS Seizes Ammunition, Weapons In Some Provinces
NDS Seizes Ammunition, Weapons In Some Provinces
Monday, August 15, 2011 Kabul (BIA) Personnel of the National Security Directorate (NSD) could detect and seize a number of weapon and ammunitions catches in different provinces of the country.
Personnel of the National Security Directorate (NSD) could detect and seize a number of weapon and ammunitions catches in different provinces of the country. A statement issued to BIA said the (NDS) personnel detected the ammunitions and catches in some parts of Kandahar, Oruzgan, Helmand, Zabul, Baghlan, Herat, Logar, Paktia, Khost, Kapisa, Laghman, Maidan Wardak and Kunarha. The ammunitions and arms included 54 anti-personnel rounds, 620 Kg-barrels of IED, one gas-balloon full of explosives ,9 AK-47 rifles along with 740 bullets, one small weapon, one MC, five various kinds of weapons, 10 Kg of explosives, 38 hand grenades along with their 41 fuses, three rockets, 20 boxes of missiles, five cluster bombs, five aircraft rocket projectiles, 4 RPG two, 10 Kg vacuum posts, 30 power wire etc which was seized by NSD personnel in the said provinces, the statement detailed. By detection of the ammunition and weapons, many destructive activities prevented, the statement added. Earlier wide quantity of ammunition and weapons had been seized by the NSD personnel in some provinces of the country.Comment
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.Wakht News » Ten insurgents killed, wounded in Baghlan 2011-08-14 15:35
Ten insurgents killed, wounded in Baghlan
Baghlan – (Aug 14)
Four armed government oppositions were killed while six others were detained in two separate operations conducted by the US Special Forces in Baghlan, official said Sunday.
A Nato official in the area told Wakht News Agency that in first operation which took place in Baghlan city the forces killed two and detained six insurgents.
He added that in the second operation which took place in Pule Khomri town of the province, the Special Forces killed two insurgents.
The official also hinted that the US and Nato forces would launch operation to cleans the areas of Borka, Tala and Barfak of Baghlan province from the insurgents.
On the other hand Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman claimed that five coalition soldiers were killed as a result of roadside bomb in Baghlan province, the claim which the official out rightly rejected.
Report: Sultanzoi
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.18 insurgents killed in Afghanistan: statement18 insurgents killed in Afghanistan: statement
KABUL, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police eliminated 18 Taliban and detained 31 more insurgents during operations in the country over the last 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
"The Afghan National Police (ANP), in collaboration with the Afghan National Army, NDS or National Directorate of Security and Coalition Forces, launched 10 joint operations over the past 24 hours in the Kabul, Nangarhar, Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Paktika, Baghlan, Paktia and Farah provinces," said a statement issued by the Interior Ministry here.
"As a result of these operations, 18 armed insurgents were killed, seven other armed insurgents were wounded and 31 armed insurgents were arrested," the statement said.
Separately, police also found and defused a total of 13 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and anti-vehicle mines in Kabul, Kapisa, Baghlan, Farah, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunduz, Nimroz and Uruzgan provinces, over the same period of time, besides seizure of seven AK-47 guns, six pistols and two rocket launchers, the statement said.
"The ANP also found five motorbikes, one vehicle and five artillery shells as a result of the above operations over the past 24 hours," it said.
Taliban insurgents have yet to make comments.
The Taliban outfit, fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops, have intensified their activities against government interests and security forces since the beginning of May when the militants group announced to launch a spring offensive against security forces all over the countryComment
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.11 insurgents killed, 24 detained in Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Police, backed by the Afghan army and NATO-led forces, eliminated 11 Taliban militants and detained 24 others in the country over the last 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
"The Afghan National Police (ANP) with the assistance of the Afghan National Army, NDS (National Directorate of Security) and Coalition Forces launched eight joint operations over the past 24 hours in surrounding areas of Kabul, Nangarhar, Sar-e-Pul, Kandahar, Helmand, Nimroz and Logar, provinces," said the statement issued by the Interior Ministry here on Saturday morning.
"As a result of these operations, 11 armed insurgents were killed and 24 other armed insurgents were arrested," it said.
During the separate operations, the ANP also found and seized three rounds of anti-vehicle mines, 27 kg of ammonium nitrate, used in making Improvised Explosive Device (IED), and six AK-47 guns.
According to the statement, five radio handsets and 19 AK-47 magazines were also seized by the ANP during operations in Samangan, Kunduz, Ghazni, Khost, Paktia and Herat provinces in the same period of time.
The Taliban has yet to make comments.
The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the militant group announced to launch a spring offensive from May 1 against Afghan and NATO-led troops stationed in Afghanistan.
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.Police kills 13 insurgents in Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police, backed by NATO-led forces, eliminated 13 Taliban militants and detained 16 others in the country over the last 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
"Afghan National Police (ANP), with the assistance of the coalition forces, launched eight joint operations over the past 24 hours in Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, Farah, Kunduz and Zabul provinces," said the statement.
"As a result of these operations, 13 armed insurgents were killed, 16 other enemies were arrested,"the statement said.
During the raids, ANP also found five AK-47 guns, a grenade launcher, a satellite radio and various kinks of ammunition.
In an unrelated incident, two civilians were killed Thursday morning when an explosive device went off in Ghazni province, 125 km south of capital Kabul, provincial police chief told Xinhua.
"A young boy was selling a handful of scrap to a shop owner in Ghazni, the capital of Ghazni province, but a piece of unexploded ordnance went off at around 11:00 a.m. local time Thursday, leaving two men dead on the spot," provincial police chief Zarawar Zahid said.
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.4 insurgents killed, 15 injured in Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police, backed by army and NATO-led forces, had killed four Taliban insurgents and injured 15 others in the country over the last 24 hours, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Monday.
"Afghan National Police (ANP) with assistance of the Afghan National Army, NDS (National Directorate of Security) and Coalition Forces launched five joint and independent operations over the past 24 hours in surrounding areas of the Kunduz, Kandahar, Wardak, Kapisa and Nimroz provinces," said a statement, providing daily operational updates to media, issued by Interior Ministry here.
"As a result of these operations, four armed insurgents were killed, 15 others were wounded and six other armed insurgents were detained," the statement said.
Separately, ANP during an operation conducted in Paghman district, west of Kabul city of Kabul, found and seized a weapon cache include two anti-craft rockets, 10 rounds of mortar mines and a handful of ammunition, according to the statement.
Taliban outfit as the major anti-government group fighting Afghan and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan has yet to make comment.
The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the militant group announced to launch spring offensive from May 1 against Afghan and NATO-led troops stationed in Afghanistan.
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.Deadly week continues in Afghanistan as 2 NATO troops killed - CNN.com
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Roadside bombs killed two service members in separate attacks Friday in southern Afghanistan, NATO said, marking the eighth death in the region in the past three days.
On Thursday, five Americans were killed in an improvised explosive device attack. An additional service member died Thursday in a similar strike in eastern Afghanistan.
No other information was provided.
The rash of attacks comes on the heels of the worst single-incident loss of life for Americans since the Afghan war started nearly a decade ago.
Thirty U.S. service members, including 17 Navy SEALs, were killed Saturday when their helicopter was apparently shot down by insurgent fire in the eastern central province of Wardak.
Sgt. Daniel J. Paton, 26, of Canton, Ohio, was also killed that day in a roadside bomb in Helmand province.
The attacks coincide with a NATO drawdown and a transition of security to national forces. Ten thousand U.S. soldiers are scheduled to depart Afghanistan by year's end, with the full drawdown set for the end of 2014.
"The endgame for NATO is to hand over security responsibility over all of Afghanistan to the Afghan security forces," said Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobsen, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
"Once we have achieved that, the NATO mission can come to an end."
Critics question the readiness of Afghan security forces, particularly those operating in the country's restive eastern and southern border provinces.
Jacobsen said NATO forces aim to provide a more manageable scenario for local forces "against only very reduced numbers of terrorists."
But, he said, it "will have to be seen in the three and a half years that we've got left."
Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said last month that a U.S. military presence in the country could extend beyond the 2014 date.
Still, he emphasized that America "has no interest in permanent bases in Afghanistan."
"We will stay as long as we need to and not one day more."
Roughly 150,000 International Security Assistance Force members are deployed in Afghanistan, including fewer than 100,000 from the United States.
Meanwhile, NATO reported Friday that two insurgents were killed and several more detained after a joint coalition-Afghan operation in the northern Baghlan province.
The raid targeted a "Taliban facilitator" responsible for coordinating a network of suicide bombers who were preparing an "imminent attack" on provincial government officials.
The whereabouts of the facilitator are not clear.
NATO says coalition forces also detained an insurgent leader in Kandahar province, a Taliban heartland often considered their birthplace.
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.Bakhtar News Agency - Six Pakistani Terrorists Hold In Torkham Border
Friday, August 12, 2011 Kabul (BIA) The National Security Directorate Personnel in an especial operation arrested six Pakistani terrorists in Nangarhar province yesterday.
The National Security Directorate Personnel in an especial operation arrested six Pakistani terrorists in Nangarhar province yesterday. The NSD press office told this news agency, the arrested persons are residents of Punjab and Nowshar of Pakistan along with an Afghan terrorist who is a resident of Nangarhar currently living in Peshawar while entering from Pakistan to Afghanistan were arrested in Torkham border. These terrorists using counterfeit ID cards wanted to travel to Kandahar, Nangarhar and Baghlan province for carrying out terrorist activities arrested with a number of documents, notebooks and fake ID cards. According to the source, the arrested persons confessed to their crimes in their primary investigations. Translated by: Ahmad Rateb Nabizada
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.Afghan, NATO forces keep up pressure on Taliban insurgents
by Farid Behbud, Abdul Haleem
KABUL, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- In spite of losing 38 Afghan and NATO service members in an air crash Saturday, Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stationed in Afghanistan have been mounting pressure on Taliban and associate insurgents since the weekend.
In the latest operations against Taliban fighters, Afghan police captured a Taliban commander in country's Baghlan province 160 km north of capital city Kabul on Tuesday, provincial police chief, Abdul Rahman Rahimi said.
"After a siege and search operation, police captured a Taliban commander Mullah Jamaluddin in Burka district Tuesday morning," Rahimi told reporters in provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri.
The detained Jamaluddin had served as Taliban commander in Burka and adjoining areas and was responsible for organizing suicide attacks, Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts and targeting security forces, the official in Baghlan added.
At least 27 Taliban insurgents have been killed by police during operations backed by Afghan army and ISAF, since Saturday, Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed in separate statements released here.
A day earlier on Monday, a joint Afghan and NATO-led forces killed an insurgent and detained two others in Dowlatabad district, Faryab province, ISAF said in a statement on Tuesday.
"The targeted leader is a Taliban commission chief and the Taliban's second-in-command in Jowzjan province. He is responsible for leveraging illegal taxes against villagers, orchestrating attacks on Afghan security force checkpoints, transporting supplies and weapons," ISAF statement said.
The latest operations took place in the wake of crashing a helicopter with the NATO-led ISAF force during a military operation in country's Wardak province with Maidan Shar as its capital, 35 km west of Kabul, on Aug. 6.
"Thirty-eight coalition members were killed on Aug. 6 when a coalition CH-47 crashed on a mission that targeted a Taliban leader in the Tangi Valley, Sayyidabad district, Wardak province," ISAF said in a statement released Monday.
The victims include 30 U.S. soldiers, a local interpreter and seven Afghan commandos, which virtually represents the highest number of the U.S. forces killed during a single event since the war on terror began in Afghanistan in October 2001.
Even though the Taliban outfit claimed responsibility for shooting down the chopper, ISAF spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson has rejected the claim, saying no sign has been detected.
"The incident as tragic as it was and its magnitude will have no influence on the conduct of operations," ISAF spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson told reporters at ISAF weekly press briefing here on Monday.
As part of exerting pressure on militants, Afghan and NATO forces during a security operation in Panjwai district, Kandahar province, on Monday detained two suspected Taliban insurgents, ISAF said in a press release on Tuesday.
It also stated that "a combined Afghan and Coalition security force detained numerous suspected insurgents during a security search for a Haqqani network facilitator in Terayzai district, Khost province, Monday. The Haqqani facilitator is heavily involved in the acquisition of roadside bomb making material and weapons, as well as coordinating the movement of these materials to fighters in the area."
"The campaign is going to continue, we will continue to relentlessly pursue the enemy in the fight that we are taking to them," ISAF spokesman Jacobson pointed out at the press conference on Monday.
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.Frontier Post :: Afghanistan News :: 12 gunmen killed, over 40 detained during operations
KABUL (AIP): Afghan and coalition forces killed a dozen of anti-government elements and detained 43 others in different provinces over the past 24 hours, interior ministry claimed Wednesday. Police, National Army, National Directorate of Security (NDS) and coalition forces conducted 12 operations over the past 24 hours in Baghlan, Kandahar, Helmand, Wardak, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika and Paktia provinces in which 10 opponents were killed, four wounded and 43 detained, the interior ministry said in a press release.Similarly, it said two Taliban were killed when a land mine they were planting detonated prematurely in Dilaram district of Farah yesterday.The interior ministry said that police also seized 10 motorcycles and a motorcar in the same area, adding 17 mines and 36 kg of hashish was also discovered by security forces in different areas.Comment
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