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This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.
I ' , Print Mcssagc(s) Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887 Page 4 of 49 e_ _ _ _ UNCLASSIFIED/+Feue did not bear any fruit they had no choice but to join the insurgents," Hotak said. He cautioned that the security situation ln _ ., ,V . the province would continue to deteriorate unless the government implemented practical measures to reduce the rate of unemployment. * . After video of the public beating of a father and his daughter attracted wide attention on social media and local television, the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Saturday that five people _ ' ‘ - t . were arrested in Sar—e—Pul Province for their-role in the incident. "The father and daughter were beaten by the village resident after a T ~ I~ fortune teller accused them of robbery," the statement said; In Badakhshan Province, police officials said that a woman and_her husband were "brutally killed" in front of their children bye Taliban T A ' ' militants after they discovered that she was a policewoman working _ at ‘ * ~ ‘ the police headquarters in Shuhada district. In other security developments, Khaama Press reported that 10 civilians who were abducted by unknown gunmen three days ago in Gha2ni‘s Qara Bagh . district were released. Governor spokesman Shafiq Nang said that local elders played an important role in securing the release of the . _ _ A , hostages. ' ' Other Top News Today _ - _ "AAF MD—530 ‘Jengi' helicopter flies over Afghanistan"; Captain Cory -l A ‘ ' ‘ V Fale, helicopter pilot and MD-530 advisor at Train, Advise, Assist Command—Air (TAAC—Air), praised Afghan pilots for successfully debuting MD—53O helicopters in Nangarhar Province. "The addition of armed MD—530s to the Afghan Air Force is pivotal following the January 2015 reduction in coalition airpower," Pale said, adding, "It i was great seeing the pride beaming from the Afghan aircrews as they climbed out of their helicopters from their first combat mission."- Pajhwok Afghan News 15 August 2015 - "Ministry of Defense says 199 insurgents killed, wounded in two days": The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that 199 militants ' = were killed and wounded in military operations carried across the country over the past 48 hours. The statement added that 13 Afghan National Army soldiers were also killed during these operations. ' ' UNCLASSIFIEDHFQI-J-O_ - - * _ 1 " ‘ 8/23/2017 _e Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 49 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.