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Syrian War Daily (blog)
April 28, 2018
Farah Province: Afghan National Security Forces killed three and wounded six elements of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Bala Buluk and Farah Rod districts. One of the three killed elements was the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's district chief / governor of Farah Rod, Qari Gul Mohammad.
The Detroit News
April 27, 2018
Farah Hanley told 67th District Court Judge David Goggins that Lyon “was calm, steady and measured” in the May 2016 meeting. It was Dr. Paul Kilgore, a Wayne State epidemiologist and part of the study group studying a 2014-2015 Legionnaires' outbreak, who was profane and unprofessional at theÃâà...
Long War Journal
April 12, 2018
For the first time, the military has released district-level assessments of control in Afghanistan. FDD's Long War Journal has consistently advocated for greater transparency on the situation on the ground. The Taliban currently controls 37 districts, contests 200, and claims to control two more. This accountsÃâà...
Xinhua
April 9, 2018
In neighboring Helmand province, three Taliban became the victims of their own bomb after the device exploded prematurely in Gereshk district on Sunday. On the same day, four militants were killed and seven others wounded after ANA artillery struck Taliban position in Bala Buluk district, western FarahÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 9, 2018
Hilmand, from Nawa-e-Barakzaiy district. Western Region: More than 650 people reportedly arrived in Farah City, Farah, from five districts within the province, following clashes between security forces and armed groups in March. In Farah, sources on the ground confirmed the return of more than 4,500Ãâà...
Reliefweb
April 2, 2018
Control over Anardara district recently shifted to an NSAG. Western Region: Nearly 800 people reportedly arrived in Farah City, from six districts within Farah province, following clashes between armed groups and security forces. Returns to Afghanistan. Since the beginning of the year, more than 11,000Ãâà...
Philadelphia Public School Notebook
March 29, 2018
The pair will be replaced by former SRC chair Marjorie Neff and former District Chief Operating Officer Fran Burns. In the same swoop, Pennsylvania Gov. ... The five-member commission was already operating short-handed after the resignation of Farah Jimenez last month. The SRC needs three votingÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 28, 2018
Mohammad Radmanish, the ministry's spokesman, said that among the 26 killed, 12 Taliban were killed in Khak-e-Safed and Balablok districts and in the capital of Farah province; six were killed in Trinkot district of Uruzgan province, four were killed in Greshk district of Helmand province, three were killedÃâà...
New York Times
March 18, 2018
But when villagers carried the bodies to the district center hours later, with nearly 200 protesters accompanying them and chanting, “Death to the ... Fighting has raged across the country, with some of the heaviest coming in the western province of Farah, where insurgents are once again at the gates of itsÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 15, 2018
Hundreds of families have been displaced as a result of the ongoing fighting that has flared in the center of Farah province and some other districts in recent days, a number of residents who have fled the volatile region said on Thursday. Intense fighting broke out between the Afghan National Defense and Security ForcesÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 13, 2018
“Sixty five Taliban (fighters) have been killed and over 50 others wounded in the security offensives from the air and land in Bala Block and Anar Dara districts. Currently our forces are present in the Anar Dara district,” the defense ministry's deputy spokesman Mohammad Radmanesh said. Reports indicateÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 13, 2018
Although none of the areas in Farah province are under Taliban control, Bakhtawar said the fighters repeatedly managed to take over district headquarters, and at times, also manage to enter the provincial capital, Farah city. According to a recent BBC study, the Taliban are active in 70 percent of districts inÃâà...
New York Times
March 12, 2018
The fall of the district, Anardarah, came days after the Afghan security forces suffered heavy casualties in another district of Farah, which borders Iran and is ... “None of the districts in Farah are completely under Taliban control, but we can say that all of the districts are contested,” said Farid Bakhtawar, theÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 11, 2018
Around 15 security force members, including eight Special Forces, were killed on Friday night in Bala Blok district in Farah province, provincial council members said Saturday. Head of Farah provincial council Farid Bakhtawar said the troops had gone to Fararod area in Bala Blok district on Friday night toÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 6, 2018
20 to 22, Afghan Special Security Forces (ASSF) defeated a large group of Taliban attempting to create instability in Bala Baluk district of Farah province. The Afghan special operators removed more than 70 Taliban fighters from the district through a combination of offensive, ground maneuver and US andÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
February 28, 2018
A member of the School Reform Commission has unexpectedly resigned, leaving four commissioners to manage the district in the waning days of its authority. Farah Jimenez submitted her resignation to Gov. Tom Wolf on Feb. 23, which was effective Wednesday, the district said in a released statement.
Philly.com
February 28, 2018
School District and SRC officials had warm words for Jimenez and her service. “It has been an honor to serve on this commission alongside Farah over the past year,” Wilkerson said in a statement. “I have admired her commitment to public service and tenacity, during years of difficult decisions, whichÃâà...
Voice of America
February 24, 2018
Officials said the deadliest of the several attacks occurred in western Farah province, where Taliban insurgents in a pre-dawn assault killed at least 20 government forces before capturing their base in Bala Baluk district. Separately, two early morning suicide bombings targeted Afghan forces in the troubledÃâà...
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
Fighters with Afghanistan's Taliban militia stand with their weapons in the Ahmad Aba district on the outskirts of Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, Afghanistan, on July 18, 2017. Taliban militants launched an offensive on three checkpoints in and around the western Afghan province of Farah onÃâà...
Xinhua
February 11, 2018
KABUL, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two footballers were killed and three others injured as a roadside bomb struck a car in the western Farah province on Saturday, a local news agency Pajhwok reported Sunday. The athletes, according to the news agency, were on their way to Anar Dara district to attend a footballÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
militants have been killed during a clash in Balabuluk district of western Farah province, an official said on Tuesday. Nasir Mehri, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants stormed a security forces' check-point in Nalak-Darstan village of the district late Monday night. Five POPÃâà...
TRT World
December 31, 1999
In violence elsewhere in Afghanistan on Monday, four policemen were killed and three were wounded in a Taliban attack in western Farah province, in Bala Buluk district, according to Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for the provincial governor. Three Taliban fighters were killed and two others wereÃâà...
Tampabay.com
December 31, 1999
An Afghan official says at least five soldiers were killed when their checkpoint was attacked by the Taliban in western Farah province. Mohammad Naser Mehri, the governor's spokesman in Farah, says two other soldiers were wounded in the attack on Tuesday in the Bala Buluk district. He says six TalibanÃâà...
The Philadelphia Tribune
December 31, 1999
A member of the School Reform Commission has unexpectedly resigned, leaving four commissioners to manage the district in the waning days of its authority. Farah Jimenez, 49, submitted her resignation to Gov. Tom Wolf on Feb. 23, which was effective on Wednesday, the district said in a releasedÃâà...
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