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cities, towns & villages of Jowzjan province, Afghanistan
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ShadowSpear Special Operations
March 24, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan Special Security Forces and U.S. Special Operators eliminated four ISIS-K fighters during a partnered nighttime raid in the isolated village of Mughul, Darzab district, Jowzjan province, Afghanistan, Mar. 22, 2018. This tactical defeat of ISIS-K fighters in Jowzjan is the mostÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 23, 2018
Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a major trauma hospital in the city, said 35 wounded had been brought in as well as four who were dead on ... Separately, Afghan Special Forces arrested a French woman among a group of Islamic State fighters captured in the northern province of Jowzjan, anÃâà...
DAWN.com
March 23, 2018
US and Afghan forces conducted a “nighttime raid” on Thursday in Mughul village in Darzab, the statement added. It made no mention of a French female fighter. Most of the fighters in Jowzjan were “Pakistani Pashtun”, General John Nicholson, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, said in theÃâà...
The New Indian Express
March 23, 2018
US and Afghan forces conducted a "nighttime raid" on Thursday in Mughul village in Darzab, the statement added. It made no mention of a French female fighter. Most of the fighters in Jowzjan were "Pakistani Pashtun", General John Nicholson, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in theÃâà...
The National
March 23, 2018
US and Afghan forces conducted a "night-time raid" on Thursday in Mughul village in Darzab, the statement added. It made no mention of a French female fighter. Most of the fighters in Jowzjan were "Pakistani Pashtun", General John Nicholson, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, said in theÃâà...
i24NEWS
March 23, 2018
US and Afghan forces conducted a "nighttime raid" on Thursday in Mughul village in Darzab, the statement added. It made no mention of a French female fighter. Most of the fighters in Jowzjan were "Pakistani Pashtun", General John Nicholson, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in theÃâà...
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 Darzab and Qush Tepa districts. Insurgents ... Rahila (not her real name) fled her village of Sardara in Darzab district to seek refuge in central Jowzjan.
New York Times
March 12, 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 .... a series of towns and villages in the east, American and Afghan Special Operations forces responded with Operation Hamza to take back the territory.
The Siasat Daily
March 10, 2018
Mohammad Reza Ghafoori, the spokesman of provincial governor said, “The clash occurred in Darzab district. Security forces did not suffer any casualties in the clash.” He further informed that a body of a woman was found stuffed in a bag at Afghan-Gas Enterprise Blocks in Sheberghan city of JowzjanÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 28, 2018
Syrian Democratic Forces' YPG reportedly recaptured the village of Amranli in Sharran subdistrict from Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army. However, the locality ... Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army and Turkish Land Forces' artillery shelled Jindires and villages in Bulbul subdistrict. According to the SyrianÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
February 22, 2018
“Sesame oil was widely sold 20 years ago in Mazar-e-Sharif city, but it's not bought and sold very much nowadays,” he continued. “Thirty years ago, we used to sell 120 kilos of sesame and linseed oils a day, but now we sell about 40 kilos each day.” Sesame and linseed oils were once highly prized inÃâà...
The Drive
February 20, 2018
“As a governor, I can say about the province of Darzab and Khoshtipe,” Moulavi Abdulhai Hayat, chair of the provincial council in Jowzjan, told Russian ... the claim that the U.S. military is shielding ISIS- and Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in the Rukban refugee camp near the Southern Syrian city of At Tanf.
Theafricom
February 8, 2018
Joint US and Afghan air raids targeted the Islamic State group in Afghanistan's northern Jowzjan province, while in northeastern Badakshan province US fighter jets pounded Taliban camps that were providing support to militant Turkic Muslim Uighurs who seek independence from China, a US-led coalitionÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
January 26, 2018
In the Darzab district of northwestern Jowzjan province, around 300 young people, most of them under 20, have reportedly been recruited into ISK-P and received training. The group has established training centers in the villages of Moghul and Sar Dara, and there are even reports an ISK-P commanderÃâà...
Pakistan Today
January 5, 2018
At least 10 civilians were killed and four others wounded in an airstrike on Friday in Jowzjan's Darzab district, Afghanistan, reported by Tolo News. The residents of Faryab province, in the north of Afghanistan, claimed that the airstrike was carried out by foreign forces. About what the Resolute SupportÃâà...
The Sun
December 12, 2017
A number of Algerian and French nationals entered the largely ISIS-controlled district of Darzab in northern Jowzjan province in November, said district governor Baaz ... Darzab residents told AFP that roughly 200 foreigners had set up camp just a few hundred yards from the village of Bibi Mariam.
Asharq Al-awsat English
December 11, 2017
Another resident, Akram, also informed AFP that the town is 95 percent under ISIS control and many of the residents, especially public workers, have left the ... Hashar, a former district village chief, said he started seeing French fighters with their translator as of mid-November and they were training others toÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 1, 2017
On June 20, fighters from the Islamic State (IS) extremist group claimed to have captured Darzab district in Jowzjan Province, and government officials and the ... captured in the Kakha district not far from where Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran meet, and they were headed for Turkmenistan's city of Mary.
New York Times
June 28, 2017
The attack took place in the district of Darzab, in the southwest of Jowzjan Province, a remote area that has long seesawed between government and ... In the village of Betaw in Darzab, Islamic State militants killed seven local police officers and 15 civilians, according to a local elder, and threatened to killÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
December 31, 1999
A joint Afghan-U.S. special operations raid early Thursday in an isolated village in the northwestern Jowzjan province was the latest in a series of operations targeting the group. On Jan. 28, Afghan forces captured Khitab Aka, the head facilitator of foreign fighters for the group in Jowzjan province. On MarchÃâà...
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