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Gandhara
February 28, 2018
Afghan officials say at least five police officers have been killed and 30 other people abducted in two separate incidents in the south of the country. Dost Mohammad Nayab, the spokesman for Oruzgan Province's governor, told RFE/RL that the incidents occurred on a highway linking Kandahar andÃâà...
New York Times
October 19, 2017
At least 43 soldiers were killed in the predawn attack, out of a unit of 60 based in Maywand District in Kandahar Province, the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a ... As the Taliban overran districts in the south of the country, and then briefly captured the northern city of Kunduz in 2015 and then again last year,Ãâà...
New York Times
September 23, 2017
“The Taliban have closed all district health clinics and sent us threats to shut down the hospital, too, so the doctors decided to close it down for their own safety,” said Khan Agha Miakhel, director of the provincial health department in Oruzgan. Mr. Miakhel said the Taliban were demanding that theÃâà...
New York Times
October 7, 2016
Abdul Karim Karimi, 50, is the district governor of Khas-Oruzgan, in the southern province of Oruzgan. The province's capital city, Tirin Kot, barely ... Friba Turani, 44, is a member of the provincial council in Faryab Province, where the Taliban threaten several districts. She has five children, and her husbandÃâà...
The Sydney Morning Herald
September 8, 2016
"The sacrifice of our people is a sacrifice that is I would say worthy and it's a terrible loss but it is, recognise, about a contribution to Afghanistan, not a contribution to either the valley in which they might have died or the district or indeed the province but ultimately about Afghanistan," he said. "I always haveÃâà...
New York Times
May 2, 2016
“We only have access to Chora district, which is close to the capital; the rest of the districts are cut off from the provincial center.” A stronger Taliban foothold in Oruzgan would further destabilize the surrounding areas, including Kandahar, and large parts of central Afghanistan. While Kandahar has remainedÃâà...
The Independent
February 3, 2016
He played football and cricket, lived with his family in the dusty Afghan town of Tarinkot, and had a tutor to help him learn English. But even in a country torn by war, Wasil Ahmad was no ordinary 10-year-old schoolboy. His role in a 43-day stand-off with the Taliban in a remote district of Uruzgan provinceÃâà...
New York Times
October 30, 2015
The situation was similar in Uruzgan Province, which borders Helmand to the northwest, according to local officials. “The Afghan security forces have not made progress in the past seven days of fierce fighting,” said Hajji Mohammad Omar, a member of the Nad Ali district council; Nad Ali district borders theÃâà...
New York Times
October 11, 2015
In many districts that are nominally under government control, like Musa Qala in Helmand Province and Charchino in Oruzgan Province, government forces hold only the government buildings in the district center and are under constant siege by the insurgents. “We do not have any way to escape,” saidÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2015
“The death of Matiullah Khan is a big blow to the people of Oruzgan,” said Hajji Sayed Ali, an elder from the Dehrawoud district. “He was strong against the Taliban and actually ... “The Taliban will come again, and the districts will fall into their hands,” he said. “He was not only good at security, but was goodÃâà...
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