Two Taliban fighters and three civilians were killed in bombings in Paktika and Zabul provinces. The Taliban killed two more civilians and wounded 25 more in a rocket attack in Ghazni province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed and captured an unspecified number of Taliban fighters during operations in Kabul, Wardak, Helmand and Khost provinces, and […]
Eight US troops, seven Afghan security personnel, and several Taliban fighters were killed during a Taliban assault on two joint outposts in Nuristan; a district police chief and 13 policemen were captured. US and Afghan forces detained several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters in Paktia and Wardak provinces and destroyed a heroin lab in in […]
With an increased focus on breaking the links between insurgents and the narcotics industry in Afghanistan, the US has announced, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing held earlier this month, its new initiatives to combat this threat. The most significant and controversial (to some NATO partners like Germany) shift in strategy is to use […]
A massive Taliban truck bomb killed 25 Afghans in the Mohammmad Agha district in Logar province. Most of those killed were children and policemen. An ISAF soldier was killed in an IED attack in southern Afghanistan. President Karzai pardoned five heroin traffickers.
Afghan and Coalition forces killed eight Taliban fighters in the Deh Rawood district in Uruzgan province, killed three Taliban fighters and captured three more in Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, and destroyed a drug and bomb factory in the Sangin district in Helmand. ISAF forces destroyed more than $3 million of heroin in eastern Afghanistan. […]
The district of Nad Ali hosts Taliban command and control centers and a narcotics hub as well as al Qaeda camps used to train the Shadow Army.
Allegations of abuse are repeated verbatim by a willing press, but the US government’s allegations and evidence against Mohamed are often ignored or downplayed.
Security forces detained seven al Qaeda fighters in Diyala and two more in Touz Khormato. Border police in Trebil seized 50 kilograms of heroin. One civilian was killed and six more were wounded in an IED attack in Baghdad. Seven civilians were wounded in a bombing in Mosul.
The Afghan government denied reports it conducted peace talks with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia last month. President Karzai’s brother denied accusations that he is involved in Afghanistan’s heroin trade and threatened to sue The New York Times. Spanish military intelligence said Iran offered to shelter Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
ISAF forces captured a senior Taliban leader behind suicide and conventional attacks in Uruzgan province. Afghan police and soldiers killed five Taliban fighters after they attacked a police leader’s home in Kandahar. President Karzai’s brother has been linked to the heroin trade.
The head of the North Ossetia province™s organized crime fighting unit, Mark Metsayev, was shot dead in the provincial capital Vladikavkaz on Friday. Gunmen ambushed a police patrol in the Caucasus republic of Ingushetia Friday evening leaving two officers seriously injured. Transport police intercepted 55 pounds of heroin from a Tajik national in the southern […]
Mullah Sorkh Naqaibullah, who has bribed his way out of Afghan jails three times, killed along with 24 Taliban fighters in the southern province.
Mullah Abdul Bari killed along with 29 Taliban fighters north of Musa Qala; 11 Taliban fighters captured. Bari led Taliban operations in northern Helmand province.
General Dostum has been suspended as chief of staff to the military’s commander-in-chief. Afghan soldiers detained 11 Taliban fighters and seized 1,000 pounds of heroin in Helmand province. Afghan and Coaliton forces detained 11 Taliban fighters in Zabul province.
The Taliban kidnapped about 20 Arabs and Afghans in Farah province; six are still captive. Afghan soldiers captured a key Taliban IED facilitator in Khost province. British and Afghan forces seized one ton of opium and 20 kilograms of white heroin in Helmand province.
Matt Dupee takes a look at the Taliban takeover Musa Qala in Afghanistan one year on. The Taliban still control the Helmand district after the British withdrew in November 2006 and the Taliban overran the district center in February 2007.
The district of Musa Qala in Helmand province is once again catching on fire as Operation Palk Meher is underway. Musa Qala was the scene heavy fighting between the Taliban and Afghan and NATO forces last year, and the Taliban gained control of the district after a peace deal was signed.
Record crop of heroin poppies hits anti-drug effort in Afghanistan