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Afghan negotiators hold talks to free foreign hostages

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 11:31
Afghan village elders negotiated with the Taliban Tuesday to try to win the release of a group of foreign hostages, officials said, but no progress was reported so far. The insurgents seized eight Turks, a Russian, a Kyrgyz man and an Afghan after their civilian helicopter made a forced landing due to bad weather on Sunday in a rugged eastern district part-controlled by the militia. The Taliban, who are fighting an 11-year insurgency against US-led NATO troops and the Afghan government, initially claimed the foreigners were linked to the US military.

Afghan Taliban capture foreigners from helicopter

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 16:16
Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents have seized 11 civilians including eight Turks after their helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing, officials said Monday. Police sent to the area where the helicopter came down Sunday, in a rugged rural area of Logar province south of Kabul, had a firefight with the militants but pulled back for lack of support, the Logar police chief said.

Afghan Taliban capture foreigners from helicopter

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 11:31
Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents have seized 11 civilians including eight Turks after their helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing, officials said Monday. Police sent to the area where the helicopter came down Sunday, in a rugged rural area of Logar province south of Kabul, had a firefight with the militants but pulled back for lack of support, the Logar police chief said.

Afghan Taliban hold foreigners from helicopter

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 06:46
The Taliban have seized up to nine foreigners from a helicopter forced to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan, officials said, with Turks and Russians on board. The charter firm running the Mi-8 helicopter said seven Turks working on a road project, a Russian pilot and flight engineer, and an Afghan co-pilot were aboard when bad weather forced it to land on Sunday. Turkey's foreign ministry said in Ankara its diplomats were holding "intensive talks" with Afghan authorities to establish their whereabouts.

Afghan Taliban hold Turks after helicopter lands

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 04:15
Taliban insurgents have seized eight Turks and an Afghan from a civilian helicopter which made an emergency landing in bad weather in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The incident happened after the Turkish helicopter landed on Sunday evening, said Rais Khan Sadeq, deputy police chief of Logar province south of Kabul. "Security forces found the helicopter but the nine people were not in it. They are taken by the Taliban," Sadeq told AFP.

Taliban kill six Afghan police, three civilians

Agence France-PresseApril 21, 2013 09:45
Six Afghan police were killed Sunday in a Taliban raid helped by an "insider", officials said, in the latest such attack to hit Western-trained security forces. The militants stormed a police post in the Deh Yak district of central Ghazni province and killed the six officers as they slept, an official said. "One of the police who had links with the Taliban let them into the post while other police were sleeping," district chief Fazul Ahmad Tolwak told AFP. "The police officer who led the Taliban into the post joined the Taliban after the attack and went with them."

Six Afghan police killed in 'insider attack'

Agence France-PresseApril 21, 2013 04:30
Six Afghan police were killed Sunday in a Taliban raid helped by an "insider", officials said, the latest attack involving Western-trained security forces turning on their own allies. Militants stormed a police post in Deh Yak district of central Ghazni province and killed the six officers as they slept, an official said. "One of the police who had links with the Taliban let them into the post while other police were sleeping. The Taliban were led to the post and killed six police," district chief, Fazul Ahmad Tolwak told AFP.

Top general says U.S. to assess Afghan troops level after summer

April 16, 2013 14:31
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. commander of international forces in Afghanistan said on Tuesday he will make a recommendation of how many American troops should remain in Afghanistan after he sees how well Afghan security handles the summer fighting season. "We need to see how the Afghans do in their first summer in the lead, and make an assessment in November 2013," Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Afghan electric company struggles to make powerful customers pay

April 15, 2013 17:31
By Katharine Houreld KABUL (Reuters) - How do you collect a $200,000 (130,855 pounds) electricity bill from an Afghan warlord? Try cutting him off from the grid. Then turn off your cell phone so he can't yell at you. General Rashid Dostum - one of Afghanistan's most powerful militia leaders - found someone else to reconnect him within hours, said Mirwais Alami, the chief commercial officer at Afghanistan's national power company.

Senior Taliban leader arrested in S. Afghan operation

April 15, 2013 14:27
A senior Taliban leader was captured Saturday in an operation in southern Afghan province of Helmand, said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led coalition forces. "An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a senior Taliban leader and detained two other insurgents during an operation in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, today," the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a press release. The leader commands multiple cells of Taliban fighters, and with his subordinates, he is alleged to have participated in numerous complex attacks against Afgha
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