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| Taliban blow up Afghan army outpost in Kandahar, killing five soldiers, police say |
| 2019-01-03 |
| Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters detonated explosives planted in a tunnel below an Afghan military outpost, killing five soldiers, a police official said on Wednesday. Six soldiers were maimed in the attack on Tuesday in the Maiwand district of the southern province of Kandahar, police front man Mohammad Ashraf Watandost said. A Taliban front man, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, said the krazed killers, fighting to overthrow the government and reimpose strict Islamic law after their 2001 ouster, had killed or maimed 35 soldiers and destroyed a large cache of weapons and ammunition. Afghan border security forces separately thwarted an attack on Italian military advisers at a paramilitary base 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... on Wednesday. Noorullah Qadri, the commander of 207 Zafar military corps, said two attackers who had infiltrated the border security forces tried to kill the Italians. "The Italian nationals escaped uninjured. One attacker was bumped off immediately and the other was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! ," said Qadri. The Italian forces are part of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led Resolute Support Mission focused on training, advising and assisting the Afghan forces in four western provinces. Italia has 895 soldiers attached to Resolute Support. Officials at the Italian embassy in Kabul were not immediately available for comment. |
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