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Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 20, 2018
He added now the Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers had vacated the school but its building had damaged and was not suitable for study. ... Helmand governor's spokesman Omar Zwak said as the conflict expanded in Helamd during the past two years, many schools were either closed or shiftedÃâà...
Gandhara
March 12, 2018
FILE: An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and a policeman walk on the floor of a room at a courthouse in Farah province. ... But Nusrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, later said that security forces retook control of the district headquarters after the militants were targeted by air strikes.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 9, 2018
The Taliban launched a deadly assault on an army outpost in a remote region of Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province, killing 10 local police officers and wounding nine, a local official said on March 9. Provincial police spokesman Khali Aseir said that a large number of Taliban fighters assaulted theÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 8, 2018
In 2012 Karim Dad, a 20-year-old from the eastern province of Nuristan, decided to join the Afghan National Army (ANA). ... Mohammad Musa Radminsh, deputy spokesman at Afghanistan's ministry of defence, agreed that there were problems in dleivering pension benefits to families of ANA soldiers in theÃâà...
Global Village space (blog)
March 6, 2018
The Obama administration had mulled over increasing troop numbers in Afghan Army to 400,000. The FY2016 budget request for , the total number of Afghan National Security Forces supported a troop strength of 352,000, with the Afghan National Army comprising of up to 195,000 troops. For comparisonÃâà...
Arab News
March 3, 2018
We still use both Russian and US weapons,” chief interior ministry spokesman Najib Danesh said. There are no official figures on the number of Kalashnikovs used by Afghan police. Former army generals, who served during the country's occupation by the former Soviet Union, say several hundredÃâà...
Greater Kashmir
March 1, 2018
The operation, in which another two Taliban insurgents were also detained, was conducted on Wednesday night in Greshk district in Helmand province, Abdul Qayum Nuristani, spokesperson for the Afghan National Army-Special Operation Corps told Efe news.
Sputnik International
March 1, 2018
In an interview with Sputnik Dari, Afghan Army spokesman, General Dawlat Waziri, said that the country's military will continue using Russian firearms as long as they are functional. “When the Russian arms are no longer usable and ammunition runs out, they will be replaced with US ones. As long as theyÃâà...
Eyewitness News
February 24, 2018
LASHKAR GAH - Taliban militants have attacked an Afghan army post and killed 18 government soldiers, the defence ministry said on Saturday, while a suicide ... “A large number of Taliban attacked an army outpost and we lost 18 soldiers and two were wounded,” said the spokesman, Dawlat Waziri.
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Afghan National Army officials said their soldiers have inflicted major casualty toll to the Taliban during the battles. “All those areas which were overrun by the Taliban were retaken,” Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said. “Our forces have imposed massive casualty toll to the Taliban.”.
