Qal´eh-Ye Now authorities reintegrate two former Taliban members

HERAT, Afghanistan (May 26) – Two insurgents turned in their personal weapons Sunday to authorities at the Badghis province headquarters of the Provincial Coordination Office in Qal’ eh-Ye Now.

Insurgent’s Kill and Wound Local Nationals

Herat, Afghanistan (May 26,2010)-- In Pusht-e-Rod District, Farah Province- one civilian was killed and one was wounded in a suspected IED attack Wednesday. Local villagers went to investigate after hearing a blast,in afield between the villages of Chin Farsi and Dunkin, Where they discovered one male about 17 years of age wounded and one male about 15 years old dead from the blast

Operation ‘Sob Bakhair’: expanding security in northern Badghis province

HERAT, Afghanistan (26 May) – Afghan soldiers of Kandak 2/2/207 supported by ISAF troops of Regional Command West are expanding the security bubble built around FOB Columbus in Bala Murghab, Badghis province, north of Herat.

U.S., Italian Ambassadors discuss security, governance and economic development during visit to Farah Province

United States Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and Italian Ambassador Claudio Glaentzer visited with coalition forces and Farah provincial leadership, May 23, in Farah, Afghanistan. The ambassadors met with leadership from Task Force Three Fury, Task Force South, Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah and the Farah Provincial Government to discuss military and civilian operations and to assess the progress the provincial government is making

Significant progress made in construction of health clinic in Farah Province

Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah met with the lead contractor and the Shib Koh district sub-governor to provide an assessment of the progress being made on the construction of Ken Clinic, a new health clinic in Ken village in Shib Koh district. Over 20 locally hired workers have made significant construction progress with the clinic, according to Dawoud, lead contractor of the project. The clinic officially broke ground on April 20 and is expected to be complete within one to two months.

trained around 2500 Badghis famers and clean 3200 hectares ,cultivated lands from locust insects

Officials of Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) says, recently they trained around 2500 Badghis famers and clean 3200 hectares ,cultivated lands from locust  insects 

A new school in Herat province dedicated to the Italian soldiers died near Bala Murghab.

 The Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Herat announced yesterday that the new school in Karokh, 40 km from Herat, will be named - once completed – after sergeant Massimiliano Ramadù and corporal Luigi Pascazio, the two Italian members of the “Taurinense” alpine brigade killed four days ago by the explosion of an improvised explosive device in the district of Bala Murghab, Badghis province.

Coalition forces treat Afghan civilian wounded in Taliban drive-by shooting

 The Farah Forward Surgical Team (FST) and other coalition forces partners assisted in treating a 20-year-old Afghan male gunshot wound victim at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Farah, Afghanistan, May 18.The victim was wounded when Taliban forces opened fire while a group of Afghans were working outdoors in a drive-by shooting incident in Shewan village located in Farah Province. One other civilian was killed in the incident.The victim was medically evacuated by helicopter to FOB Farah. Immediate, life-saving surgical care was provided by the FST and Italian forces prior to being medically evacuated to Shindand for further treatment. “Our job is to take the treatments (from the battlefield) and make it more permanent,” said U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Benjamin Hodges, senior enlisted leader, Farah FST, “We stabilized them to the best of our abilities before we transport them to conventional care. Once we get them to the point where they are stable enough for flight, we will push them out.”

Donation of 16 Ambulance to MOH of Badghis by AECID

The delivery of these vehicles happened in presence of Delbar Jan Arman Governor of Badghis Province, David Gervilla country director of Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID), heads of start directorates and elders of Qala-Naw to the authorities of the Public Health Directorate.

In charge of Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID), said” form the delivered vehicles, 6 mobile clinics will be allocated to the 6 districts.

The vehicles are well equipped with medical facilities to assist patients taken to the health clinics to the hospital¨

ISAF CASUALTIES

Today at 09.15, two ISAF service members died and two were injured as a consequence of an IED strike 25 kilometres southern Bala Morghab, in Badghis province.The casualties were immediately evacuated by ISAF helicopters and moved to the military hospital in Herat.The four ISAF soldiers were on board an armoured vehicle, as part of a military convoy that was moving from Herat to Bala Morghab.It is ISAF policy to defer identification procedures for casualties to the relevant national authorities.

كشته و زخمي شدن چهار سرباز ايساف در غرب افغانستان

در اثرانفجار يك ماين كنار جاده اي در غرب افغانستان چهار سرباز ايساف كشته و زخمي شده اند.سخنگوي آيساف در غرب افغاستان در تماس با تلوزيون سبا گفت اين رويداد در مربوطات ولسوالي بالامرغاب ولايت بادغيس زماني بوقوع پيوسته است كه يك تانك نفر بر ان فرماندهي با ماين كارگذاري شده از سوي طالبان برخورد كرده است.

The girl that she doesn’t want to go home from the jail

Sima is a young girl that she extricated by president Karzai order from the Herat main jail with some another jailbirds in fare of 18^th mujahidin conquer.

This 20 years old girl doesn’t want to be extricate from the jail.

PRT Holds Continuing Education Class for Agriculture Teachers in GHOWR

On May 06th Member of Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Chaghcharan, Ghowr province, US Department of Agriculture representative Paul Kanninen held the first continuing education class for the faculty of the Agricultural High School in Chaghcharan.

Ghowr: ISAF Regional Command West supports the victims of floods

Over 2 tons of food, 200 blankets, 15 frame tents and ten pallets of clothes have been supplied by ISAF Regional Command West to the population of Ghowr, the province severely hit by the recent floods in western Afghanistan. According to a report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the floods caused the death of at least five persons and damaged more than 2,000 houses and an extended cultivated surface.In the previous days, the Lithuanian Provincial Reconstruction Team based in Chaghcharan had delivered to the local communities over four tons of food and other humanitarian aid, in close coordination with the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority.

Ghwor: ISAF RC-W continues to support the communities affected by the recent floods

HERAT, Afghanistan (May 13) – ISAF Regional Command West continues to support the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) of Ghwor, that is leading all the efforts of GO’s and NGO’s operating in the area, to assist the victims of the severe floods that affected the province last week.

Farah Governor visits Por Chaman for first time, vows more trips will come

POR CHAMAN, Afghanistan (May 10, 2010) – Farah Provincial Governor Rahool Amin, with support from Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah, visited the distant district of Por Chaman to meet with District Sub-Governor Saleem and assess the needs of the Afghan people in Farah Province

Poetry festival signifies Farah’s step towards normalcy

FARAH, Afghanistan (May 08, 2010) – The Farah Provincial Governor hosted the Anab Gull Poetry Festival on his compound, as an effort to celebrate and showcase the rich cultural history of Farah Province with its citizens in Farah

Spanish Agency for International Development

Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) has conducted training workshop of experiment of animal diseases with collaboration of Badghis Agriculture and Livestock Department) DAIL).Officials of AECID animal health section say, this is the first training workshop to test for animal diseases in Afghanistan conducted in Badghis province. This four day program had two sections: theoretical, practical)

Herat: three insurgents detained in Parwan reject violence

Three insurgents detained in the prison of Parwan were released today in Herat after they’ve adhered to the reintegration program led and advised by the Afghan government to persuade insurgents to terminate their fight and assume a legitimate role in their communities.

After 30-year absence, Jirga held in Moqur district

MOQUR, Afghanistan (May 8) – District elders held a Grand Jirga May 6 in Moqur, one of the districts most affected by the insurgency in Badghis province. A Grand Jirga is an ancestral convention between Afghan rulers and the population. This Jirga has not been held for 30 years in Moqur.