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State Pao: Afghan Evening News Clips 15 August 2015

Central Intelligence Agency · 2015-08-15 · 49 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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did not bear any fruit they had no choice but to join the
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the province would continue to deteriorate unless the government
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After video of the public beating of a father and his daughter
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Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Saturday that five
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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
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"AAF MD—530 ‘Jengi' helicopter flies over Afghanistan"; Captain
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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,
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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
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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.
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