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The Moscow Times
March 25, 2018
U.S. Army General John Nicholson with Afghan police special forces after they took part in a military exercise in Logar province. Omar Sobhani / Reuters. Russia has rejected comments by NATO's top commander in Afghanistan that it has been supporting and even supplying weapons to the Taliban, in aÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
March 23, 2018
FILE - In this Monday, July 20, 2015 file photo Afghanistan National Army wounded soldiers lie on the ground as they receive treatment, in district of Baraki Barak in Logar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. ... more. Photo: Ihsanullah Mahjoor, AP. Image 2 of 7. FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 fileÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 22, 2018
The minister was speaking at a gathering of farmers coming from Kabul, Parwan, Logar, Ghazni, Panjsher and Bamyam provinces to celebrate the National Farmer's Day here. Durrani told the ceremony named “My Homeland, May Farmer” in Kabul that his ministry was working to provide technical servicesÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 18, 2018
Elsewhere in the province, police seized three-kilogram explosives in Dur Baba district, a statement from the governor's house said. No one has been ... In central Logar province, Afghan Special forces killed the Taliban's telecommunication chief and captured three of his associates. Salem Saleh, theÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 12, 2018
Central Region: In the past week, 1,680 people have reportedly newly arrived in Kabul from Logar, Kapisa, Wardak and Baghlan provinces due to an increase of armed conflict incidents with the end of winter. Nearly 2,500 people have reportedly been displaced to four districts of Parwan Province fromÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 11, 2018
“Traditions and security problems are two major obstacles to girls' education in Logar province,” he said. “That is the reason most of families are not interested in sending their girls to school.” “Many minor girls in the beginning of each year are enrolled in schools but most of them drop out after fifth grade,”Ãâà...
Monterey County Herald
March 9, 2018
Cerros, an Everett Alvarez High graduate from Salinas, was killed in action in Logar Province, Afghanistan, in 2011 at age 24 and received a Purple Heart. Highway 101 from Hudson, near Soledad, to Espinosa Road near Greenfield will be designated the United States Army Sgt. Javier Sanchez MemorialÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 5, 2018
Logar police chief Esmatullah Alizai said, “Security in Logar province has improved compared to the past and at the beginning of spring we plan to increase our operations against the Taleban - who prevent the implementation of the ministry of education's training programmes as well as governmentÃâà...
StopFake.org
February 27, 2018
... our readers about the techniques, methods and practices used by the Russian government in its information war. February 27, 2018 - 15:00 Context. U.S. Army Gen. John W. Nicholson, the commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speaks with Afghan police special forces, Logar province, November 30, 2017.
Stars and Stripes
February 27, 2018
Abdol is charged with being an accomplice to murder and attempted murder in a 2014 attack on a U.S. convoy near the border of eastern Logar and Wardak provinces. The prosecutors allege that Abdol joined a local Taliban group in 2013 in the Baraki Barak district of Logar province. They say he wasÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 25, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): The residents of central Logar province are complaining about low-quality medicines being sold at local ... Zahid, a resident of Kalangar area, said the bulk of medicines were imported illegally to Afghanistan through Khost and Paktia provinces.
Military Times
February 25, 2018
30 in which a Taliban fighter used his home in Logar province as a firing position. “There was a man with a rocket launcher behind our house. My brother told him to move away, saying, 'go away from here, please! There are children and women here!' We saw him start to move away, but when my brotherÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 19, 2018
Ghani on Saturday appointed new governors for Laghman, Logar, Maidan Wardak, Samangan and Kunduz provinces. An IDLG statement said the five governors were appointed based on recommendations of the directorate. Abdul Jabbar Naeemi was appointed as governor for northern Kunduz province,Ãâà...
Greenville News
December 31, 1999
On Christmas Eve 2012, Aaron Hillis was on patrol in Afghanistan's Logar Province when his vehicle drove across an improvised explosive device. Hillis, a native of Inglis, Florida, was knocked unconscious and doesn't remember much about the incident. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, and althoughÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
prison in Dara-I-Mangal district of central Logar province on Friday, an official said. Shahpoor Ahmadzai, Logar police spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban captured the four ANA soldiers about one and half a month ago in Zazai Ayob district of Paktia province. He said the soldiers were ableÃâà...
