![]() ![]() (Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases. On 19 July, the Taliban abducted and killed two sons of former Kandahar provincial council member Fida Mohammad Afghan. We will continue to find and destroy the enemy until they realize that there is no safe haven to be found in this country." "The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the coalition will not cede any area of this country to the insurgents. Chris Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman. "(Afghan) and coalition forces are defeating the insurgents in an area of Afghanistan that is considered a Taliban safe haven," said Army Maj. The Afghan-led patrol killed more than three dozen insurgent fighters with small-arms and mortar fire and precision air strikes. The Afghan and coalition forces immediately returned fire and called in close-air support to destroy the enemy fighters' compounds.Ĭoalition aircraft dropped three bombs, each on a separate compound, during this encounter. The insurgents attacked from three separate compounds near Gorazon with 107 mm rockets, heavy machine guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. Taliban insurgents engaged an Afghan-led patrol four kilometers northeast of the village of Gorazon. In other news from Afghanistan, Afghan national security forces advised by coalition forces successfully defeated a Taliban ambush in Helmand province July 23. All 38 persons on board the Navy SEAL warriors, other U.S. The Taliban ambushed and killed the director of Afghanistan’s government media center on Friday in the capital of Kabul, the latest killing of a government official just days after an. Intelligence suggests that Taliban forces are likely attempting to reassert their presence in northern Kandahar after their recent defeats from Afghan and coalition operations in the area during the past several weeks, U.S. A Taliban fighter shot down a Chinook helicopter carrying 22 Navy SEAL Team Six members in Afghanistan. Several insurgents are believed to have been killed during the skirmish, officials said. ![]() The combined forces repelled the attack with small-arms fire, and coalition aircraft dropped four bombs and made several strafing runs on the insurgent positions. The Afghan army-led patrol was about to pass through the village when Taliban fighters attempted the ambush, U.S. “I can hear the sporadic sound of shooting from the area,” MP Nasrullah Sadeqizada, who lives nearby, told AP by phone on Monday.WASHINGTON (American Forces Press Service, July 25, 2007) - Afghan and coalition forces killed numerous Taliban fighters in defeating ambushes over the last several days.Īn unknown number of insurgents ambushed a group of Afghan National Army and police troops advised by coalition forces on a combat patrol near the village of Sarizkay in Afghanistan's Kandahar province yesterday morning. The Afghan intelligence service accuses Alipoor of leading an illegal armed group that is behind extortion and other mafia-like behaviour in the region. The protesters in western Kabul were rallying to denounce the arrest of Abdul Ghani Alipoor, a Shia militia leader in western Ghor province. The Taliban view the US-backed government in Kabul as a dysfunctional western puppet and have refused to negotiate with it. There was no statement on the Faryab assault. The Taliban, who in recent years have taken control of nearly half of Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the Farah attack, which was the latest in a series of brutal, near-daily Taliban assaults on Afghan military and security forces. Three soldiers were wounded, while the fate of five others is unknown. ‘Cold-blooded brutality’ During the two-day killing spree, three other men Ali Jan Tata (65), Zia Faqeer Shah (23), and Ghulam Rasool Reza (53) were ambushed and killed at a Taliban. In the northern Faryab province, the Taliban attacked an army checkpoint in Qaisar district, killing 10 troops, said Mohammad Tahir Rahmani, head of the provincial council. The police chief was also killed, said Qaneh. Afghan forces on Monday rescued 149 people, including women and children, abducted by the Taliban just hours earlier in northern Kunduz province, officials said. The convoy was on its way to the district of Lash Wa Juwayn to introduce the newly appointed district police chief when it came under attack, said another council member, Abdul Samad Salehi. The Taliban ambush, in western Farah province on Sunday afternoon, wounded four policemen, including the deputy provincial police chief, said Dadullah Qaneh, a member of the provincial council.
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