Badakhshan Province: In Argo District, battles resulted in at least eight people killed. In Wardoj District, major battles resulted in at least 44 people killed. Local police say the battles were over control of 20 villages and the rescue of police believed to have been taken POW by Mujahideen.
Ghazni Province: In Gilan District, Ministry of Defense says battles resulted in at least five people killed, eight wounded.
Herat Province: In Shindand District, a local government police base was attacked with artillery and machine guns for an hour, at least three people wounded, an undisclosed number of people killed.
Kabul Province: In Kabul City, Afghan news investigations have revealed that local police in three provinces have gone without pay for at least three months! As a result they’ve started selling their U.S. taxpayer funded weapons to local Mujahideen. The Afghan Ministry of Interior denies the allegations, however, Afghan news media have interviewed several police chiefs from Ghazni, Logar and Maidan Wardak provinces who said that most of their funding came from the United States and for some reason it stopped three to four months ago. As a result they’ve begun selling their weapons and ammo to Mujahideen, and hundreds of cops have joined Mujahideen. The police chiefs claim many of their police and their families are now starving due to no incomes.
Kandahar Province: In Kandahar City police shot and killed a man riding a motorcycle. They claimed he was a Kamikaze bomber, but Mujahideen have not claimed him as one of their own. The deputy governor of Kandahar was assassinated while taking a class at the university, the assassins escaped. Reports say he was sniped through the classroom window. In Maiwand District, Afghan National Army personnel reported they called in NATO airstrikes, killing at least four people.
Khost Province: In Sabari District, Ministry of Defense officials say battles resulted in at least seven people killed, eight wounded.
Kunar Province: In Dangam District, local administrators blame artillery fire from Pakistan for wounding two people.
Laghman Province: In Laghman City, an Islamic State style attack as three people in a car were killed, four wounded, after being shot up by passing gunmen. In Alisheng District, an artillery attack killed one person and wounded six.
Logar Province: In Azra District, a Kamikaze bomber attacked Afghan National Army and Police personnel, killing nine people and wounding 20.
Nangarhar Province: In Chaparhar District, local government officials claim they’ve killed five insurgents, and captured 100. They said many are from Pakistan, however, Afghan Mujahideen say the people now in government prisons are not only not from Pakistan but are local villagers who’re not even members of the Mujahideen. It sounds like a land grab op by local government administrators.
Paktia Province: In Gardez City, an explosion in a market killed 24 people and wounded 23.
Parwan Province: Bagram airbase was hit with artillery fire. The Afghan Ministry of Defense says the arty round hit the infamous U.S. created torture prison, at least 25 prison victims wounded, one killed. U.S.-NATO-ISAF condemned the attack on their torture prison.
NATO member Turkey has agreed to host police training for 200 Afghan women. The women will be trained in Turkey for four months, there was no mention of who was paying for the training.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced that economic trade with Afghanistan is now at a record $4-billion USD per year! Despite the U.S. occupation Iran has built roads, power lines, border stations and many other infrastructure projects linking the two nations.
This comes as The Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) actually turned to Iran for financial help in Afghanistan, in direct violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran! (Barack Obama is the Commander in Chief of the DoD)
The commander of the Army National Guard (from the U.S. state of Oregon) was returned to the U.S. for ‘health’ reasons. The exact reason was not made clear.
Several members of the Army National Guard’s 19th Special Forces (Utah U.S.A.), and veterans of the Afghan and Iraq occupations, are in big trouble for using taxpayer funded property and even an M109A6 Paladin SP gun, in a booby video! The video shows scantily clad women, with their breasts about to pop out of their tops, catwalking with assault rifles and rubbing themselves on military vehicles. The “behind the scenes” Hot Shots Calender video was made on Camp Williams (I been there a few times), which is also home to massive civilian data collection ops.
In the U.S. state of Michigan, protestors announced plans to demonstrated outside the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base. The base is home to armed Reaper UAV (aka RPV, drones) ops.
After being based on Bagram airbase more than 300 air-militia-personnel of the Air National Guard’s 187th Fighter Wing (Alabama, U.S.A.) returned home.