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CBS News
February 16, 2015
1 for Afghan security forces and civilians in recent years. In one recent 48-hour period, 158 of them were discovered and defused by the Afghan army across the country, according to Ministry of Defense spokesman Zahir Azimi. Sibghatullah, now a double amputee, cannot return to his hometown in NuristanÃâà...
NBCNews.com
August 5, 2014
Gen. Mohammmad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, tweeted in Dari that the gunman was wearing an Afghan military uniform and was shot dead after opening fire on Afghan and international colleagues. A senior security source told NBC News that the suspected gunman was aÃâà...
CBS News
February 24, 2014
Mohammad Zahir Azimi said Pakistanis, Arabs, Chechens and Afghan were among the "hundreds" of insurgents involved in the attack, citing "exact information" and intelligence. He did not elaborate. Kabul has often said it has evidence of the involvement of Chechens, Arabs and Pakistanis in TalibanÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 15, 2014
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban killed 21 soldiers in an assault on Sunday in a remote mountainous region, the Afghan government said, and six soldiers were missing after the militants' most deadly assault on the security forces in months. Also on Sunday, in a possible blow toÃâà...
Khaama Press
May 20, 2013
Zahir Azimi said Taliban group is expecting a victory in 2014 and therefore has deployed all its fighters in Afghanistan in a bid to take control of the power after NATO troops leave Afghanistan. Meanwhile Afghan defense officials assured that Taliban's increased insurgency activities will have not impact onÃâà...
New York Times
September 6, 2012
Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the spokesman for the Afghan military, who was also at the briefing, said that a thorough re-vetting of Afghan National Army troops and recruits was being stepped up and that already “hundreds” of Afghan soldiers had either been detained or dismissed from duty because ofÃâà...
New York Times
May 22, 2011
Government officials were still investigating the attack on Saturday on the heavily guarded national military hospital in Kabul. Gen. Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, said investigators had not confirmed that the attacker was wearing an army uniform. But a military doctor at the hospital whoÃâà...
New York Times
February 26, 2010
Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, said at a news conference in Kabul that it could take up to a month for troops to defuse bombs and rout the remaining fighters. Sporadic fighting and resistance could last even longer, adding to the difficulties of setting up a fully functional localÃâà...
