| Submit your comments on this article |
| Afghanistan |
| Afghan forces and civilians suffer casualties in Nangarhar attack |
| 2017-03-27 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] A number of the Afghan cops and ordinary civilians suffered casualties during an attack on a security post in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province late on Saturday evening. The provincial government in a statement said the attack was carried out in the vicinity of Najmuddin Akhundzada roundabout located in Behsud district. The statement further added that two non-combatants were killed in the attack along with two soldiers inside the security post. Another soldier also sustained injuries in the attack, the provincial government added. According to the local officials, the assailant Death Eaters also suffered casualties after the Afghan forces responded to their fire but the exact number has not been ascertained so far. Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in eastern Afghanistan but the anti-government armed krazed killer groups have recently increased their insurgency activities in some parts of the province during the recent years. Taliban gunnies and Death Eaters affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are actively operating in a number of the remote districts of Nangarhar. This comes as the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-insurgency operations in some of the restive districts of Nangarhar as part of the Shaheen-25 operations launched over a month ago. |
| Posted by:Fred |