The Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement that, Afghan police arrested 23 people for their role in criminal activities in 34 provinces.
A statement of the Ministry of Interior Affairs said, 33 suspects for involvement in criminal activities were arrested by the Afghan police in 34 provinces.
Clashes occurred between the Afghan National Police and the Taliban radical group overnight Saturday in the Spin Buldak district of the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, Sputnik has learned from local sources.
Police in the northern Jawzjan province set on fire 35 tons of illicit drugs including heroin and hashish on Monday, provincial police chief Abdul Wahid Wajdan said Tuesday.
The Afghan National Police operations team has arrested 22 suspects in nine of the country’s 34 provinces within the past two days, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Sunday.
Four policemen were killed and another was wounded when Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in western Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday night, a police official said.
Afghanistan’s poorly armed and underpaid police are usually on the frontlines against Taliban militants and they lost 90 men defending the strategic city of Ghazni last month, underlining chronic weaknesses that are likely to face further tests. The four days of intense fighting in Ghazni have highlighted problems, including resentment of the ...