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The ALP is the third attempt by the International Security Assistance Force to create local defense forces.The first initiative, which started in 2007, was the Afghan Auxiliary Police (AAP).The second initiative, which commenced in early

KABUL A local Afghan leader who had been involved in efforts to defeat the Taliban was killed Monday in a suicide bombing that left 12 others dead as well, and nine injured, officials said. Mohammad Rasoul Mohseni was the head of the provincial ...

HERAT, Afghanistan, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Six Afghan police were killed as a roadside bomb went off in Herat province 640 km west of Kabul on Tuesday, a local official said. "The ill-fated policemen were on the way to Obe district this morning when ...

Afghan police and medical officials say at least 11 people, including a senior provincial politician, have been killed in a suicide attack outside a government compound in northern Afghanistan. Sadeq Muradi, Baghlan Province's deputy police chief, ...

Afghan police were accused of killing eight protesters at a demonstration on Wednesday as the U.S.-led coalition said it had opened an investigation into allegations of misconduct by NATO troops during an encounter with insurgents. Both incidents ...

Afghan policemen are seen at the site of clash with Taliban in Qaysar district of Faryab province in northern Afghanistan on May 7, 2013. More than 100 Taliban insurgents killed or wounded in the clash which lasted for more than one week in Qaysar ...

Mohamed Ghahi, Afghan civil engineer, and a local youth have been arrested by the Dehiwala Police in Sri Lanka for allegedly raping a 15 year old girl. The Afghan had come to Sri Lanka on vacation on April 20. On the evening of the incident, he was ...

(CBS NEWS) KAYTAK, Afghanistan - In Afghanistan, the Taliban's spring offensive enters its second week Sunday, after claiming the lives of seven U.S. service members and eight Afghan police officers over the past four days. U.S. troops are trying to ...

On an Afghan parade ground, Dutch soldiers stand to attention at a graduation ceremony for local police officers, one of many such scenes which will soon fade into the past.