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TOLOnews
April 24, 2018
Wardak, Nuristan, Panjsher, Badakhshan, Ghor, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Daikundi, Badghis, Paktia, Kunar, Faryab, Kunduz and Kapisa provinces had the lowest voter registration turnout in the week. The worst voter registration turnout was seen in Wardak, with only 458 people registering. Next was Nuristan withÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 20, 2018
Local officials said the insurgent group pressured communications companies to cut operations to just a few hours a day in parts of southern Uruzgan and Zabul provinces. Private communications companies that provide mobile and internet services in the areas declined to comment on the issue, fearingÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
April 18, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Daesh - or so-called Islamic state (IS) -rebels have recruited three women in the Chora district of central Uruzgan province, an official said on Wednesday. Provincial Council Chairman Amir Mohammad Barikzai told Pajhwok Afghan News theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
April 12, 2018
have been killed and 21 others injured in security forces operations in Paktika and Uruzgan provinces, a statement and official said on Thursday. Four Taliban were killed and 17 others injured in security forces operation and airstrike in Khas Uruzgan province, a statement from the 205th Atal military corpsÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 10, 2018
Afghan Ministry Of Defense (MoD) said on Tuesday the Taliban's shadow deputy governor for Uruzgan, Abdullah, was killed during Afghan security forces operations in the province on Monday. Mohammad Radmanish, the ministry's deputy spokesman, said Abdullah was killed in Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province.
Xinhua
April 9, 2018
KABUL, April 9 (Xinhua) -- At least 13 Taliban militants have been killed and 15 others wounded in separate incidents, the Afghan Defense Ministry said Monday. In Khas Uruzgan district, southern Uruzgan province, six militants were killed and eight others wounded after Afghan National Army (ANA)Ãâà...
Xinhua
April 4, 2018
TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan, April 4 (Xinhua) -- At least two Afghan soldiers were killed and five others wounded after Taliban militants stormed a security forces' camp in restive southern province of Uruzgan overnight, a local official said Wednesday. Militants numbered hundreds attacked a joint military campÃâà...
Gandhara
April 4, 2018
TARIN KOT, Afghanistan -- Government forces and insurgents are using access to irrigation water as leverage to pressure civilians into supporting them or force their opponents out of their villages and communities. Lawmakers and locals in the restive southern province of Uruzgan say that during the pastÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 2, 2018
Key issues. • In the past week, more than 11,000 people have reportedly been displaced by conflict. • Damaged telecommunication towers in Uruzgan hamper assessment of displaced families. • The GBV Sub-Cluster reached more than 8,000 people with services and health education. Countrywide conflictÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 31, 2018
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): A man has shot to death his sister and injured his mother and another sister in Tirinkot, the provincial capital of southern Uruzgan province, an official said Saturday. Dost Mohammad Nayab, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Musa Kalim gunned down hisÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 27, 2018
... said that among the 26 killed, 12 Taliban were killed in Khak-e-Safed and Balablok districts and in the capital of Farah province; six were killed in Trinkot district of Uruzgan province, four were killed in Greshk district of Helmand province, three were killed in Faryab province and one in Ghazni province.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 22, 2018
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Two children have been killed, their father and another child injured when a mortar shell landed on their house in Tirinkot, the capital of central Uruzgan province, a local elder said on Thursday. Aminullah, the elder of locality, told Pajhwok Afghan News the mortar shell struck theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 22, 2018
Uruzgan agriculture director Eng. Zalmai Alko said his departments planned to implement 49 projects for bringing improvement into the lives of farmers. He did not go into details about the projects, but said they would help Uruzgan become self sufficient in vegetables. He said work had also been done lastÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
March 15, 2018
“So if you are a resident of far-flung northern Helmand, or rural Oruzgan, maybe things are looking up for you, because this year you didn't see any Americans, your poppy harvest was not slashed and burnt … the Taliban come around and collect their taxes, but only once,” says the official. “So everyone'sÃâà...
The Siasat Daily
March 12, 2018
According to an Afghan military source, the airstrikes were carried out in the last 24 hours in Khas Uruzgan and Chora districts of the province, reported The Khaama Press. Meanwhile, counter-terrorism operations are underway in other restive districts of Uruzgan Province to crack down on anti-governmentÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 12, 2018
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): The Women Affairs Department of central Uruzgan province is being led by a man, with females saying they have yet to benefit from projects implemented in their name. International Women's Day was markedat the provincial human right office. Dozens of women and local officialsÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 10, 2018
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): A woman was killed and three policemen were injured as the cops turned guns on each other after a verbal clash in Chora district of central Uruzgan province, a public representative said on Friday. The woman was inside her home in the district center when she was hit by bullets firedÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 3, 2018
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): The governor of central Uruzgan province on Saturday said security forces in the province were 'incapable' because they had completely failed in preventing security incidents. Asadullah Saeed, who recently took charge as the new governor of Uruzgan, was addressing a gathering ofÃâà...
WLWT Cincinnati
March 1, 2018
Separately, the Taliban said Friday they released five of a total of 19 people they say they abducted on Tuesday along the boundary between the southern Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces. At the time, Gen. Abdul Raziq, Kandahar's police chief, said insurgents wearing army uniforms stopped a bus andÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 1, 2018
TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Armed robbers stole a vehicle and other materials from the Mines and Petroleum Department of central Uruzgan province last night, an official said on Thursday. Mohammad Naib, the provincial governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the robbers stole a Hailux modelÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 1, 2018
A group of fighters wearing army uniforms kidnapped 30 people, including 19 policemen, after stopping a bus on Tuesday night at the border between Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces. "There were civilians in the bus as well and we are trying to identify the people kidnapped in the attack," QudratullahÃâà...
KCCI Des Moines
March 1, 2018
Separately, the Taliban said Friday they released five of a total of 19 people they say they abducted on Tuesday along the boundary between the southern Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces. At the time, Gen. Abdul Raziq, Kandahar's police chief, said insurgents wearing army uniforms stopped a bus andÃâà...
CBS News
February 28, 2018
... killing six police and wounding five others. At the same time another group of insurgents wearing army uniforms stopped a bus and kidnapped 30 people, of whom 19 are policemen, said Raziq. Both incidents took place Tuesday night at the border between Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces, he said.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 27, 2018
militants have closed the Uruzgan-Kandahar highway and abducted 30 passengers, an official said on Wednesday. Dost Mohammad Nayab, the Uruzgan governor spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident occurred in the Urdo-Balagh locality on the highway late on Tuesday. He accused theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 25, 2018
She, however, regretted no such trend existed in Uruzgan, where expecting mothers were shifted to hospital after they had lost a lot of blood. Civil Hospital Director Dr. Aminullah Tokhi confirmed patients were often evacuated to hospitalin critical condition. He said some problems caused the death ofÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 17, 2018
militants have been killed and 15 others wounded in joint operations by Afghan and foreign forces in southern Uruzgan province, a military official said Saturday. Khwaja Yehya Alwai, spokesman for the Afghan National Army (ANA)'s 205th Atal Military Corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the ANAÃâà...
Xinhua
February 16, 2018
TRINKOT, Afghanistan , Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- At least 70 armed insurgents have been killed and 15 others wounded during the security forces operations in Uruzgan province, south of Afghanistan, since Thursday, a local security official said Saturday. "At least 70 militants have been killed in the restive areasÃâà...
Arab News
December 31, 1999
In southern Helmand and neighboring Uruzgan provinces, the Taliban who lead the insurgency against the government and US-led troops have broadened their ban on mobile phone firms following offensives by Afghan and foreign troops. Insurgents also want to show that the government is unable toÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
... districts of Helmand province, 13 insurgents were killed and weapons, ammunition and hideouts were destroyed. The ministry said the second airstrike was conducted in the Chora district of Uruzgan province and 20 insurgents were killed and three motorcycles, weapons and bases were also destroyed.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
The source said that Khas Uruzgan district would collapse to militants if reinforcements not arrived immediately. Lack of coordination among a number of security officials and internal problems are the main factors of worsened security situation in the district, he said. Uruzgan governor's spokesman, DostÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
In February more than half of the attacks happened in Faryab, Helmand, Uruzgan, Farah, Kandahar and Nangarhar provinces and the remaining attacks took place in 21 provinces. Pajhwok did not receive security report from Bamyan, Ghor, Heart, Maidan Wardak, Nuristan, Paktia and Panjshir province.
