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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban attack NATO convoy, kills 14 Afghan soldiers in separate attacks |
| 2017-12-20 |
| [SOFREP] Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... holy warriors, in a series of attacks, stormed isolated police outposts around the quiet provincial capital of Lashkargah, killing 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. Afghan officials claim to have beaten back the attack and inflicted serious casualties on the attackers. Taliban sources later claimed that the corpse count of government troops was much higher. They frequently attack police outposts as those are considered "soft targets" where the number of troops is smaller and the troops are far less trained than some of their contemporaries in the Afghan Special 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. |
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