NATO troops arrive at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul Aug. 10, 2014. Reuters/Omar Sobhani
Hundreds of Taliban Fighters Battle Afghan Forces Near Kabul -- Voice of America
(Reuters) - As many as 700 heavily armed Taliban insurgents are battling Afghan security forces in Logar, a key province near the capital Kabul, local officials said on Tuesday, in a test of the Afghan military's strength as foreign forces pull out of the country.
Militants have this summer mounted increasingly intensive assaults across several provinces, often involving hundreds of fighters, as the country braces to stand on it own feet militarily for the first time in nearly 13 years.
"There are some 700 of them and they are fighting Afghan forces for territorial control and they have also brought with them makeshift mobile (health) clinics," Niaz Mohammad Amiri, the provincial governor of Logar province, told Reuters by telephone.
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I can hear the helicopters warming up their engines in time for 2016 elections of not before.
I don't think another Ferguson could take that off the air.
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