Afghan National Police

...Palu prefers the work of the fledgling Afghan National Army to the corruption-riddled Afghan police. "Last year two Afghan police jumped in their truck and went into a small village to rob the locals. Because they are poor, or...

In this article: Detainee, Taliban, Afghanistan, Afghan police, Kandahar Province, Canada, and Revenue

...the first time that the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces are systematically reaching out to Taliban fighters. Afghan police in Herat sort weapons surrendered this week by former Taliban fighters. The U.S. aims to persuade...

In this article: Taliban, U.S., Kabul, Graeme Lamb, Stanley McChrystal, Afghan police, and Taliban insurgents

...main towns in Balkh and Kunduz are no longer safe with the Taliban carrying out ambushes and operating roadblocks, even sometimes using Afghan police uniforms and police vehicles to carry out abductions. Although the number of insurgents...

In this article: Taliban, Kunduz, NATO, Al-qa'ida, Afghan police, Mohammed Omar, CIA, and Balkh

...often skims 30 percent off the top of his meager salary, according to police on the street. Posted on Fri, Nov. 20, 2009 12:01 PM Afghan police are weak link in security force Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained,...

In this article: Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Afghan police, Kandahar, Banana, and Kabul

...were in power between 1996 and 2001 before being ousted in a US-led offensive. A lack of training and light weaponry, have made the Afghan police an easier target than the army, which is better trained and equipped. The more than 100,000...

In this article: Afghan police, Taliban, Taliban insurgency, NATO, Afghanistan, Arghandab, Kandahar, and Kandahar Province

...little attention is being paid to a promising dimension of our efforts to foster reform -- a much better approach to building the Afghan police force. This anticorruption agenda does not reduce the need to battle kleptocratic trends in...

In this article: Afghan police, NATO, Hamid Karzai, Stanley McChrystal, Michael O'Hanlon, Barack Obama, Afghan army, Taliban, and Afghanistan

...use." Partnering British troops with the ANP came under the spotlight after the shooting dead of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman last week. Lt Col de Quincey Adams said: "The ANP are the interface between the government and...

In this article: Afghan National Army, Taliban, Dragoon guards, and ANA

...in a raid in Kandahar, a stronghold of Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan. In a statement Tuesday, military officials said Afghan National Police and NATO forces recovered 500,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which is...

In this article: NATO, Taliban insurgents, Kandahar, Afghanistan, and U.S.

...the paid of insurgents and were more loyal to their tribes than the Afghan government. British officers say that among low-ranking Afghan police, and particularly in more rural areas away from central control, there is widespread corruption...

In this article: Taliban, Opium, Afghanistan, Heroin, Pakistan, and United Nations