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Kabul Slams China Over Reported Taliban Visit

Edit Voa News 31 Jul 2016
The Afghan government has shown its displeasure over reports that a Taliban delegation visited China, saying Beijing should not provide “a platform” to groups that are involved in the killing of Afghans ... military airstrikes have retaken control of the Khanashin district, a day after it fell to insurgents, and inflicted heavy casualties on the retreating Taliban ... “I can confirm that U.S....

Taliban Captures District in Helmand Province

Edit Voa News 30 Jul 2016
Taliban fighters staged a surprise assault on Khanashin overnight and fighting was still continuing in parts of the district, a provincial government spokesman told Afghan media Saturday ... In a brief statement sent to VOA, he said the insurgents inflicted heavy casualties on Afghan security forces before they abandoned Khanashin ... Khanashin is adjacent ......

Heavy fighting as Taliban try to overrun Afghan district

Edit Stars and Stripes 30 Jul 2016
Mohammad Omar Zwak, a spokesman for Helmand’s provincial governor, said the Taliban captured several outposts in Khanashin district on Friday night. But he denied media reports that the district had fallen. “Fresh security forces have been deployed to the battlefield. With the backup of international forces, Afghan security forces recaptured some outposts,” Zwak said on Saturday ... wellman.phillip@stripes.com ... ....

Afghan government money reaching Taliban through marble trade

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
Intent on maintaining a marble industry, government buys stone from firms who in turn pay fees and taxes to Taliban. Global development is supported by. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ... From mines in the desolate Khanashin and Dishu provinces, it snakes through Badamchar, a smuggler’s haven described by Nato as “a Taliban command-and-control area”, with ammunition storages, bomb factories and training camps for foreign fighters ... ....

Afghan New Year Ushers in Same Old Fighting Season

Edit Huffington Post 18 Mar 2016
Taliban in Action Photo.PKKH.tv. The fighting pattern in Afghanistan, at least since the Taliban became resurgent circa 2006, has followed a predictable pattern. fighting lull in the winter due to inclement weather and resumption of Taliban attacks in the spring ... In the southern province of Helmand, the Taliban are in full control of many districts including Sangin and Khanashin ... Afghan Army in Action ... ....

Taliban fighters seize Afghan territory as NATO chief visits Kabul

Edit Stars and Stripes 16 Mar 2016
The Khanashin district in Helmand fell to the Taliban after insurgents had "amassed" in the area "for days," a local official said ... Police and army spokesmen told Afghan media late Tuesday that the withdrawal from Khanashin had been a "tactical retreat" but that they were still battling with insurgents and the Taliban did not yet control the area....

Bomb blast kills child in Helmand

Edit Khaama Press 13 Mar 2016
Omar Zwak, spokesperson for the governor told Azadi Radio that the incident took place in Khanashin district late yesterday ... ....

US general: Afghan army being 'rebuilt' for Taliban battle

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 25 Jan 2016
military official said Monday. Helmand has been a fierce battleground since last fall, with fighting taking place in 10 districts ... U.S. Army Brig. Gen ... The harvest is worth up to $3 billion a year, and helps fund the insurgency ... The Taliban have made serious stands in seven Helmand districts - Sangin, Gereshk, Khanashin, Musa Qala, Nawzad, Washer and Marjah - and at least three districts of Lashkar Gah are also under threat, Sarjang said ... ....

Afghan official: More troops needed against Taliban in south

Edit Tampa Bay Online 20 Jan 2016
He says the Taliban are making serious stands in seven districts — Sangin, Gereshk, Khanashin, Musa Qala, Nawzad, Washer and Marjah — and that at least three districts of the ......

'Exhausted' Afghan troops fighting Taliban in south 'need reinforcements'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 20 Jan 2016
He said the Taliban are making serious stands in seven districts - Sangin, Gereshk, Khanashin, Musa Qala, Nawzad, Washer and Marjah - and that at least three ......

Taliban appears on verge of taking over a key district in Afghanistan

Edit The Los Angeles Times 23 Dec 2015
The Taliban stood on the verge of gaining an important foothold in southwestern Afghanistan on Tuesday, as additional government troops and British military advisors joined an increasingly desperate attempt to defend the key district of Sangin ... The base of U.S ... "Helmand stands on the brink." ... He said that on Saturday government troops took back the district of Khanashin, which had fallen to the Taliban 10 days earlier ... Gen ... ....

Afghan Taliban kill dozens at Kandahar airport

Edit BBC News 09 Dec 2015
Dozens of people have been killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified civilian and military airfield in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. At least 37 people, including many children, were killed in the clashes, along with at least nine militants, the defence ministry said ... There were no coalition casualties ... Separately, the Taliban claimed to have captured Khanashin district in southern Helmand province ... ....

Taliban force residents of Helmand’s Khanashin District to poison security forces

Edit Khaama Press 29 Sep 2015
Taliban militants have forced villagers in Khanashin District of southern Helmand province to poison security forces ... “Taliban would come and force us to poison security forces in the nearby security posts ... ....
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