Taliban ambush kills 22 in Sar-e-Pol north of Kabul

That the Afghan security forces are finding it difficult to come to terms with Taliban insurgency has been revealed yet again when the insurgents have killed at least 22 security force members in an ambush in Sar-e-Pol province north of Kabul in Afghanistan bbc.com.

The ambush early morning that highlights Afghanistan's fragile security structure as NATO gets ready to withdraw all of its combat troops. The ambush happened as security forces were travelling to reinforce their colleagues in another district of Sar-e-Pol.
As per reports, the Taliban attacked from the mountains as the convoy was travelling through Laghman valley - at least 22 insurgents were also killed in the attack. It has also been informed by the Sar-e-Pol provincial governor that several vehicles of the security force were destroyed.

The new government was installed at the end of September and already a civilian was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul while the villagers have hurled accusations at NATO of killing seven civilians, including a nine-year-old child, in an air strike in eastern Paktia province. NATO has described the men killed as "eight armed enemy combatants".
Those were the first people reported killed in air strikes after the new government has taken over.

Three killed as Taliban suicide bomber targets NATO convoy near US Embassy in Kabul

A suicide bomber belonging to the Taliban rammed an explosives-laden car into a convoy of NATO near the US embassy in Kabul – three people of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed namely, two US and one Polish soldier and at least 13 civilians were wounded theguardian.com.
Moreover, 17 civilian cars were damaged in the explosion which was timed to coincide with the morning rush hour traffic outside the Supreme Court and on a main road leading from the airport to the heavily fortified embassy.
The blast happened on a route that is used on a daily basis by NATO convoys and its effect was felt even at a long distance.
Incidentally, Kabul has been regularly hit by complex Taliban attacks on the airport, luxury hotels, restaurants and foreign compounds. In August, four civilians were killed in a similar attack on a NATO convoy in the city. There were no casualties but it wounded at least 35 bystanders.
As per ISAF, one coalition soldier was shot dead on Monday by a man wearing an Afghan national army uniform and such ‘insider attacks’ have undermined relations between foreign soldiers and the Afghan military. The Afghan military is being trained to take on the Taliban alone after the departure of NATO.
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Seven Afghans sentenced to death for gang-rape in Kabul

A court in Afghanistan has handed the death penalty to seven men accused of for raping and robbing a group of women who were returning from a wedding theguardian.com.
As per the police, the group of men, some of whom were dressed in police uniforms, and with assault rifles, had stopped a convoy of cars in which the women were traveling along with their families in the district of Paghman, just outside Kabul, last month.
The men dragged four women out of the cars in the middle of the night and raped them in the field near the main road – one of the victims was pregnant. Moreover, the assailants beat up the women and stole their jewelry and mobile phones. This has been termed as a rare case of sexual assault that has shaken the capital and raised concerns over public security at a time of transition. Hence, exemplary punishment of death penalty has been awarded.
Such a crime of gang-rape of women in the open is totally not in the culture of Afghanistan and the trial was televised nationwide – the seven men were convicted the men of armed robbery and sexual assault.
President Hamid Karzai had assured a delegation of women last week that the perpetrators of the heinous crime would face execution.
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