...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
soldier has been killed and two others have been maimed in a Taliban
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students...
-claimed attack in Afghanistan, days after a US general was maimed in a shooting on a high-level security meeting.
NATO’s Resolute Support mission is not immediately releasing the nationalities of the three soldiers involved in the assault in the western province of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, but it is understood that they are not American.
"Initial reports indicate the attack was committed by a member of the Afghan cops," Resolute Support says in a statement.
In the incident’s wake, Tadeen Khan ‐ a brother of Raziq and a member of the Afghan cops ‐ has been appointed acting provincial police chief, interior ministry deputy front man Nasrat Rahimi told AFP.
Rumors on Afghan social media networks that Resolute Support carried out the attack on Raziq were dismissed by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...on Monday, who blamed "the enemies of the Afghan people and their regional supporters" for the gossip.
"Such rumors are justifying the enemies’ atrocities," Abdullah ‐ Afghanistan’s equivalent of prime minister ‐ said in comments at a regular ministerial meeting that were broadcast on Afghan television.
| Update from the Wall Street Journal at 8:25 a.m. ET, though the rest of the article is paywalled: |
The soldier was the fourth Czech service member killed as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission to Afghanistan since the Central European country’s parliament approved a plan in June to nearly double its forces in Afghanistan to 390.