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Foreign Forces Deployed To Farah Province
[Tolo News] A number of foreign troops have been deployed to Farah province to support Afghan cops in the fight against Lion of Islams, local officials said on Friday.Farah governor's front man Nasir Mehri confirmed the report and said a number of U.S. and Italian troops arrived at Farah city airport on Thursday. Mehri said that troops will support Afghan cops in ground and from air operations in combat against Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and other Lion of Islam groups. He did not speak about the number of the troops but sources said that 120 soldiers deployed to the province. This come after early this year around 200 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... soldiers, mainly Italians, have been deployed to Afghanistan's volatile western province of Farah after attempts by Taliban fighters in recent months to overrun its capital city. The Pentagon recently said it would deploy some 300 U.S. Marines to the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , where American forces engaged in heated combat until their mission ended in 2014. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-30 |
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