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The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served the old regime, says the official tasked with overseeing the military’s transformation. Latifullah Hakimi, head of the Taliban’s Ranks Clearance Commission, also told Read More …
Afghanistan’s ex-finance minister has blamed the government’s fall on corrupt officials who invented “ghost soldiers” and took payments from the Taliban. Khalid Payenda told the BBC that most of the 300,000 troops and police on the government’s books did not Read More …
NATO will continue its long-standing contribution to the sustainment of Afghan military institutions, the statement read. The DEEP initiative of NATO has been carried out on the leadership level and works through three pillars namely curriculum development, faculty development and Read More …
One Taliban terrorist was killed and two others were wounded in a clash between police and Taliban insurgents in the Khairkut district of Paktika province. Police also prevented six landmines from exploding in several separate reconnaissance operations in the Sarwadah Read More …
Afghan National Army saved lives of tens of civilians in Zheria-Maiwand roads, Kandahar Province today. 48 IEDs which were placed by Taliban terrorists on public roads to kill civilians were discovered & safely detonated, 17 Taliban were killed and tense Read More …
The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse five IEDs in Khost, Maidan Wardak & Logar provinces. The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse five IEDs in Read More …
36 IEDs which were placed by Taliban on public roads in Gireshk district of Helmand province, were discovered and defused by ANA. Lives of tens of civilians were saved as a result. 36 IEDs which were placed by Taliban on Read More …
Afghan National Army discovered and defused 20 IEDs which were placed by Taliban on public roads in Nahr-Saraj district of Helmand province. Lives of tens of civilians were saved as a result. #ANA discovered and defused 20 IEDs which were Read More …
2 IEDs which were placed by Taliban on public roads and under a bridge in PD 19 of Kabul province were discovered and safely detonated by ANA. Lives of tens of civilians were saved as a result. 2 #IEDs which Read More …
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – After providing Allied and Afghan forces with a cloak of protection from adversarial asymmetric weapons since May 2017, technical integrators (TI) from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) closed up shop and returned to the National Capitol Read More …
