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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan Forces Retake Key District Center from Taliban |
| 2015-08-31 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Afghan forces backed by 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... air attacks Sunday drove the Taliban out of a district center in southern Afghanistan, days after the Death Eaters overran it, officials said. Afghan soldiers (archive)The town of Musa Qala in volatile Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province was captured by the Death Eaters on Wednesday, after a week of festivities in which the Taliban claimed to have killed or captured dozens of Afghan forces. Reinforcements were brought in from neighboring Kandahar province. And early Sunday police and troops broke through the Taliban defenses in Musa Qala after NATO "Security forces including army and commando units conducted a successful offensive this morning. They recaptured the district and killed 220 enemy fighters," defense ministry front man Dawlat Waziri told AFP, insisting that government forces did not suffer any casualties. Operations were continuing to push the remnants of the Taliban out of the rest of Musa Qala district, Waziri said. The Taliban have not yet commented on the reports. Helmand is Afghanistan's main opium-growing area and a stronghold of the Taliban, whose government was toppled in 2001 for harboring Al-Qaeda leaders after the September 11 attacks on the United States. |
| Posted by:Fred |