Sentences with phrase «afghan forces»

Key Highlights: • Led U.S. and Afghan forces in decisive military engagements resulting in 50 % decrease in violence in assigned sector.

Analyzed programs and plans of Coalition Forces and Afghan Forces to determine potential conflict with other ongoing operations and policies.

October 7, 2012 • Afghan forces are scheduled to take control of their country's security by the end of 2014.

Found that carbon 14 resulted 12th last uk base helmand province was handed afghan forces morning, bringing combat operations end after 13 years.

Cameron, answering another question about Afghanistan from a backbencher, explains that in Helmand province the control on the ground is shifting to Afghan forces.

It emerged last night that Nato was suspending joint Nato - Afghan on - the - ground patrols due to the rise in so - called «green on blue» attacks by Afghan forces on western troops.

The move suggested western leaders had given up on the idea of training up Afghan forces to replace them in time for the planned withdrawal.

Afghan forces were trying to arrest leaders of the Taliban and that devolved into needing help from the United States in the form of airstrikes.

A U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, Martin O'Donnell, said Wednesday that Conde was carrying out an operation alongside Afghan forces against Taliban officials.

Other previously available information on the size, attrition and performance of the Afghan forces continue to be unavailable.

It's essential for ferrying ammunition and weapons for U.S. and Afghan forces, and waging war.

«We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area,» the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said at a press briefing.

Not exact matches

The September SIGAR report indicated that Afghan security forces had effectively closed ranks after the DoD «advocated for the closure of multiple checkpoints and consolidation of forces on fewer bases.»

We may never really know: For only the second time since the beginning of the reconstruction effort in 2002, US Forces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's securityForces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's securityforces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's security woes.

No amount of bureaucratic gymnastics will hide the problem permeating Afghan security forces and the contours of the flailing campaign against the Taliban from the American people.

Here's what we do know about the state of Afghan security forces: A September report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction indicated that ANDSF is nowhere near its 352,000 target personnel level: Afghan National Army force strength, in particular, fell from 185,817 in September 2013 to 168,327 in November 2016, thanks to increasing attrition rates and fluctuating readiness.

One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.

After 16 years and $ 120 billion spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the US invasion, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are alarmingly unprepared to take on the resurgent Taliban that's slowly clawed back territory since NATO combat operations ended there in 2014.

«The strike was designed to minimize the risk to Afghan and US forces conducting clearing operations in the area while maximizing the destruction of ISIS - K fighters and facilities.»

Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters that the military was investigating whether the two troops may have been killed by ground fire, either by American forces or Afghan commandos taking part in the raid, though it appeared to be accidental.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

The last thing they thought is that we would drop commandos, CIA and Special Forces, behind their lines, and we would assume the role of insurgents, and forge these deep alliances with these Afghan tribal leaders, these non-state actors, and in the matter of 90 days subvert and overthrow the Taliban regime and kill large numbers of al Qaeda.»

During the eight - day mission, Afghan and American forces cleared more than 120 kilometers of rugged terrain and escorted approximately 60 truckloads of humanitarian aid for distribution to the people of Shorabak.

But like other foreign - owned private security companies (PSCs), during the past few years it has been forced to hand off much of its work to local Afghan subcontractors.

Rangers from 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, as part of a combined Afghan and coalition security force operating in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, await a CH - 47 for extraction.

The unit took small - arms fire from a nearby mountain top during a routine patrol, and was able to suppress the enemy with the assistance of local Afghan National Security Forces.

Marzak has historically been a stronghold for the insurgency over the past decade until the Afghan and U.S forces took advantage of the winter months to establish a local police force at the request of the elders and secure the village from foreign fighters who transit the area during the fighting season.

The strength of the Afghan security forces has declined sharply over the past 12 months, a US government watchdog has said, amid reports of desertions and high casualty rates.

«On this occasion, the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces.

The Obama / McChrystal plan is classic counterinsurgency and focuses on protecting the Afghan population while strengthening Afghan security forces and government.

Alford, who commanded the 3rd Battalion of the 6th Marines in northwest Iraq in 2005, said we need to be much closer to the Afghan security forces, living and working alongside them.

He may underestimate the crucial role played by American air power and special forces that turned the tide of the Northern Alliance's losing war effort in 2001, but he is nonetheless correct that the war is ultimately the Afghans» to win or lose.

This oft - repeated mistake is presumably based on the necessary but incomplete help provided by U.S. air support and a few special forces advisors attached to Afghan anti-Taliban resistance.

You understand of course that it is Islamic Afghan civilians that are attacking the NATO forces, right?

First, it is debatable whether the poorly - equipped and generally ill - disciplined Afghan security forces will be able to muster the required military resolve to fight Taliban - led insurgents in their strongholds of southern and eastern Afghanistan.

Under the plan, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will assume full responsibility for combat operations within a year; NATO will withdraw all of its combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014; and the Afghan government will receive some $ 4 billion in security assistance from the US and its NATO allies, in addition to non-combat military support for a decade beyond 2014.

For its part, the US has in the past year or so further empowered its traditional allies among Afghan regional warlords (most of whom have heinous track - records) to establish their own local police forces — an issue over which Human Rights Watch's recently - released annual report expresses «grave concern».

Second, the case the author seems to build for Afghan reconciliation is largely in tune with the on - going withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan.

Now that NATO is committed to transfer security responsibility to Afghanistan, withdraw its combat forces from there and commit itself to long - term security of the war - torn country, what remains are steps that the alliance, and America as its lead player, need to take to co-opt Pakistan and other regional states in an Afghan - led and Afghan - owned peace process to secure an ethnically - balanced and all - inclusive political structure in Afghanistan.

According to the US Secretary of State John Kerry, Mansour «posed a continuing imminent threat to US personnel in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians, Afghan security forces, and members of the US and the NATO coalition.»

Afghan security forces are expected to forget their training almost immediately.

Backbenchers on the Commons» defence committee painted a bleak picture of Afghanistan's future after international forces finally hand over full control to the Afghan National Security Force in 2015.

This has reduced the threat to Coalition Forces and the Afghan population.

«The faster we can transition districts and provinces to Afghan control, clearly the faster that some forces can be brought home» Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 5 Live.

«As the Afghans become steadily more capable of looking after their own security, so we will be able to start to bring our own forces home.

It follows Afghan president Hamid Karzai's pledge at yesterday's Kabul conference that Afghan security forces would lead military operations across the country by 2014, in return for control over half of all aid money spent in Afghanistan.

In response, the Defence Secretary reiterated Cameron's «commitment that Britain will take the lead role in the Afghan national officer training academy» just outside of Kabul, which hold responsibility for training the «bulk of officer recruits to the Afghan national security forces».

The second - term House member from the 21st Congressional District said she has previously advocated for prioritized visas for Iraqi and Afghan immigrants who helped U.S. forces in the Middle East.

The Pakistani president called on coalition forces in Afghanistan to do more to improve monitoring and policing on the Afghan - Pakistani border.

Under Mr Karzai's plans the Afghan national army would begin assuming control of some areas of the country from US forces from July 2011, when US president Barack Obama has said troop withdrawals will begin.