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Afghanistan
Taliban Kills 14 Afghan Troops, Suicide Car Bomb Targets NATO Convoy
2017-12-18
[VOA News] Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
turbans have killed at least 14 Afghan troops and injured several others in a pre-dawn attack in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province.

Officials said Sunday turbans stormed police outposts around the bustling provincial capital of Lashkargah, but security forces repelled the attack and ensuing fierce festivities inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban.

A Taliban front man claimed the attack and gave a much higher corpse count for government forces.

Later, a jacket wallah in neighboring Kandahar province detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near a 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...
convoy.

Provincial police front man, Matiullah Helal, told VOA, the blast killed a woman passerby and maimed five other civilians, but did not harm any foreign troops.

The Taliban routinely carry out guerrilla raids and suicide kabooms, mainly targeting Afghan cops and convoys of NATO’s Resolute Support mission, which comprises mostly U.S. forces.
Posted by:Fred

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