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Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers keep watch outside the Bagram Airfield entrance gate, north of Kabul, Afghanistan November 12, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
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This picture taken on January 10, 2017 shows Afghan policemen standing guard at the site of an explosion near the governor’s compound in Kandahar. (AFP)
26 Afghan Soldiers Killed in Taliban Assault on Kandahar Base
The Afghan defense ministry said Wednesday that at least 26 soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a blistering Taliban attack on a military base in the southern province of Kandahar. The militants “attacked an army camp in Karzali area of Khakrez district...Caption:
Kandahar – The New York Times
Without a Motorcycle in Kandahar, ‘You Are Like a Prisoner’
Kandahar – Here in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the brief minute stopped at the light is often intimate. A man reaches back to make sure the groceries he tied to the rear rack don’t fall. A child wrapped around his father’s waist adjusts his falling sandal. A woman...Caption:
Tariq Fatemi, special assistant on foreign affairs to Pakistan’s prime minister. (AP)
PM Aide in Pakistan: We are Not Involved in Kandahar Attack
Riyadh – Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Tariq Fatemi stressed that his country is not involved in any way in the January 10 Kandahar, which killed the UAE ambassador to Afghanistan in addition to a number of Emirati officials....Caption:
In this undated photo released by Official Twitter Account of the UAE Embassy in Kabul and made available Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, UAE Ambassador Juma Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaab, center, stands next to Nasrin Oryakhil, left, Afghanistan’s minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled, during an official ceremony of the Foundation for Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan orphanage in Kandahar, Afghanistan.