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Himal Southasian
April 25, 2018
We already have large-scale activity in provinces such as Farah in the west, Kunduz and Jowzjan in the north and Ghazni in the southeast. ... After the US government had announced its (not so) new Afghanistan strategy last year, with its focus on increased military pressure on the Taliban, in order to forceÃâà...
Power Technology
April 19, 2018
... the capital of Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan, will be the first gas-fired power plant in Afghanistan. Bayat Power, a subsidiary of Bayat Energy, is the project developer. Bayat Power signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in October 2016Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 14, 2018
Some Arbaky are suspected of trafficking narcotics or even selling the weapons and ammunition that the government gives them to the Taliban. And as the security ... He was the commander of an IS force in the Darzab district of Jowzjan Province, which borders Faryab to the east. Both provinces borderÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 10, 2018
The governor of Jowzjan, Maulvi Lutfullah Azizi, said the killing of Hekmatullah, and the infighting that resulted, had come just in time to prevent Hekmatullah's fighters from overrunning government forces holding the district center of Darzab. “He was very powerful and commanded up to 500 armed fighters,”Ãâà...
New York Times
April 9, 2018
The killing of Mr. Hekmatullah led to immediate infighting among rival factions of insurgents, who disagreed on whom his successor should be, Afghan government officials in the area said. Mr. Hekmatullah, an ethnic Uzbek, was a fearsome presence in Jowzjan, a predominantly Uzbek region. As a formerÃâà...
Military Times
April 9, 2018
At the time of his death, Hikmatullah was the senior commander and main facilitator of fighters into Jowzjan, another northern Afghan province, ... A government watchdog agency is questioning the Defense Department's drug lab bombing campaign against the Taliban financial network this winter. By: KyleÃâà...
Voice of America
April 7, 2018
The U.S. military said Monday it carried out an airstrike that killed the northern commander of the Islamic State group's Afghan affiliate. U.S. Forces-Afghanistan said the strike Thursday in Faryab province killed Qari Hekmatullah and his bodyguard. Afghan military officials had confirmed Hekmatullah's deathÃâà...
Energy Business Review
April 3, 2018
... final approval from the Afghanistan government for the construction of Bayat Power-1, a gas-fired power plant in Sheberghan in the Afghan province of Jowzjan. ... The signing ceremony was attended by many high ranking governmental officials, including Dr. Mohammad Qayoumi, Senior Advisor to TheÃâà...
Markets Insider
April 2, 2018
Bayat-1 Power Plant, To Be Built In Jowzjan Province Will Supply Enough Electric Power For More Than 1,000,000 Afghans and Businesses. KABUL ... The signing ceremony was attended by many high ranking governmental officials, including Dr. Mohammad Qayoumi, Senior Advisor to The President forÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 1, 2018
"This tactical defeat of ISIS-K fighters in Jowzjan is the most recent in a series of Afghan and US (special operations forces) counterterrorism ... tenet of the Afghan government's strategy for defeating ISIS and the Taliban, and NATO hopes to help the government double the number of Afghan commandos inÃâà...
wtvr.com
March 31, 2018
“This tactical defeat of ISIS-K fighters in Jowzjan is the most recent in a series of Afghan and US (special operations forces) counterterrorism ... tenet of the Afghan government's strategy for defeating ISIS and the Taliban, and NATO hopes to help the government double the number of Afghan commandos inÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
March 30, 2018
The video, released by the US military this week, shows American special operators and Afghan Special Security Forces targeting ISIS in Jowzjan ... Taliban fighters have delivered a series of blows to government forces, helped, according to officials in the area, by neighbouring Iran, which shares a long,Ãâà...
FOX43.com
March 29, 2018
“This tactical defeat of ISIS-K fighters in Jowzjan is the most recent in a series of Afghan and US (special operations forces) counterterrorism ... tenet of the Afghan government's strategy for defeating ISIS and the Taliban, and NATO hopes to help the government double the number of Afghan commandos inÃâà...
CNN
March 28, 2018
"This tactical defeat of ISIS-K fighters in Jowzjan is the most recent in a series of Afghan and US (special operations forces) counterterrorism successes ... strategy for defeating ISIS and the Taliban, and NATO hopes to help the government double the number of Afghan commandos in the coming years.
Military Times
March 27, 2018
Later that same night, Afghan Special Security Forces killed an additional 13 ISIS-K fighters during a raid in Jowzjan, a neighboring province. The raid ... And while the pressure on ISIS-K coincides with pressure to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government, officials say the twoÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 14, 2018
Officials in Jowzjan province warn that local services are struggling to cope with an influx of thousands of displaced people (IDPs) escaping fighting in ... Sadat said that around 4,000 families had been helped by donor organisations and the rest by humanitarian assistance from government agencies.
New York Times
March 13, 2018
Last week, the Islamic State in Khorasan released a video promoting Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan's north and Nangarhar Province in the east as the .... by the United States' biggest conventional bomb is once again being used by extremists to plot attacks against the Afghan government and the West.
Times of Central Asia
March 10, 2018
The Taliban have clashed with the newcomers in the past few months in Nangarhar and northern Jowzjan province. In addition ... Beyond counterterrorism, though, Iran wants to maintain contact with the Taliban to be in their good graces if they eventually assume a role in the Afghan government. Even theÃâà...
STRATFOR
March 8, 2018
The presence of the Islamic State-Khorasan chapter in Afghanistan will compel Iran to continue offering support to the Taliban. At the same time, Tehran will maintain its outreach to the Afghan government because of their cooperation on the Chabahar port project. Afghanistan's instability will ensure Iran'sÃâà...
Voice of America
March 1, 2018
Neither the German government nor German forces serving under the U.S.-led NATO mission has commented on the news. ... American general added that IS militants are operating in parts of the eastern Afghan provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar and maintain a pocket in the northern Jowzjan province.
Voice of America
February 24, 2018
The United States military has rejected Moscow's claim the number of Islamic State militants in Afghanistan runs into the thousands, while at the same time urging Russia and Iran to support the Kabul government, not the Taliban, to help defeat IS in the country. Commander of U.S. forces in AfghanistanÃâà...
The National
February 21, 2018
"I am from Afghanistan, but I am not Afghan," Aslam Niazy, a young citizen from Jowzjan province, wrote in a Facebook post, in three different national ... And Afghanistan's chief executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah, while not outright critical of the new cards, had called on the government to postpone the launch,Ãâà...
The Drive
February 20, 2018
The Russian government is continuing to demand the United States answer its questions regarding unsubstantiated rumors of unmarked helicopters ... often citing unnamed locals, saying that similar unidentified helicopters had appeared in militant-controlled areas in neighboring Faryab and JowzjanÃâà...
Eurasia Review
February 19, 2018
On February 15, 2018, 20 Islamic State (IS, formerly, Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham, also Daesh) terrorisms were killed in air and ground attacks conducted by the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in Pacheragam, Kot, Heska Mina and Rawodat Districts of Nangarhar Province.
Military Times
February 16, 2018
Two coalition airstrikes eliminated ISIS-K fighters and facilities in the Nangarhar and Jowzjan provinces of Afghanistan, Feb. 6. ... The policy shift entails the use of military, diplomatic and social pressure to drive the Taliban into a reconciliation process with the Afghan national government. As part of the newÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
February 8, 2018
Meanwhile, Jowzjan police chief Faqir Mohammad Jowzjani told The Associated Press that a Chinese and three Uzbek militants were killed in the joint ..... MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippine government's legal counsel asked the Supreme Court on Monday to expel the chief justice for allegedly notÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 1, 2017
Turkmenistan's government has reason to be worried -- there is fighting in every one of the Afghan provinces it borders. According to local Afghan officials, local military commanders, and villagers, the Taliban controls or exerts influence in dozens of districts -- from Jowzjan Province in the east, throughÃâà...
New York Times
June 28, 2017
The events represent a new front for the extremist group, which is opposed by the Taliban as well as by the government and has not previously had significant successes in northern Afghanistan. The attack took place in the district of Darzab, in the southwest of Jowzjan Province, a remote area that has longÃâà...
