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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban seize Afghan district centre, attack army base |
| 2018-04-30 |
| [DAWN] Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters seized a district centre in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, while a bomb at an army base in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... killed at least five people. The latest violence came as snuffies pushed ahead with a spring offensive. Fighters captured the governor’s house and police headquarters in Aq Tapa, in the Qala-e Zal district of Kunduz province and Afghan government forces were fighting to drive them out, said Sayed Assadullah Sadat, a provincial council member. The Taliban’s main front man Zabihullah Mujahid said fighters had captured a police headquarters, 10 security check posts and a market in Qala-e Zal, north of Kunduz city. At the other end of the country, in Helmand, snuffies launched a vehicle kaboom on a military base in Nad-e-Ali district, killing four civilians and a soldier, according to a statement from the provincial governor’s office. The Taliban announced the official start of their annual spring offensive this week, continuing the heavy fighting seen across Afghanistan recently as warmer weather has set in. In the eastern province of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , a rocket fired by Taliban fighters hit a house in the Hoodi area of Goshta district on Friday night. Five non-combatants were killed and three were maimed. The fighting may threaten preparations for parliamentary and district council elections planned in October. |
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