Balkh Province: In Mazar-e-Sharif City, five people were arrested and accused of planting landmines and operating an illegal cell phone service.
Farah Province: In Sayed Luqman Guhrik District, five teenagers were killed by a landmine. Police say the landmine had a wire attached to it and one of the teens pulled on it.
Faryab Province: In Sherin Tagab District, for currently unknown reasons a woman and her adult daughter were assassinated, and a child wounded, during an home invasion. Speculation is that the woman had just gotten divorced and her adult daughter declared she would never get pregnant. Believe it, or not, these have turned out to be motivations for assassination in similar cases.
Kabul Province: The release of a classified document shows that over the past three years the Afghan National Security Forces have arrested 13,634 people and charged them with being terrorists or for committing “political crimes”.
Kunduz Province: A magnetic bomb on a police vehicle went off as it passed in front of the Maiwand Bank. One person killed, six wounded.
Kunar Province: In Dangam District, police claim Pakistani insurgents looted 50 homes. This follows a massive battle between Afghan National Army (ANA) and Pakistani insurgents. ANA administrators admit they’ve suffered heavy casualties but blamed that on a lack of air support by the U.S. led NATO. The battles started 14 days ago and initially the ANA did not get any CAS (close air support). So far more than 250 people have been killed or wounded. More ANA troops are being sent in, and air power has finally been established. The delay in support from U.S.-NATO could be the result of a meeting between U.S. generals and Pakistani generals: “Earlier today, U.S. Army Gen. John F. Campbell, Commander International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, accompanied Afghanistan Army Chief Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi to visit Pakistani Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif in Islamabad, Pakistan. The meeting focused on coordinating Pakistan-Afghanistan military and counter-terrorism operations on both sides of the border.”-ISAF, 23 December 2014
Laghman Province: In Alingar District, government administrators claim two Mujahideen killed by their own landmine.
Logar Province: In Baraki Barak District, at least five people killed by U.S. airstrikes. U.S.-NATO administrators claim there were ongoing battles, however, the governor of the province says at least three of the victims were simply defending their homes from marauding Kuchi nomads. The ‘battles’ were actually between villagers and the nomads.
Nangarhar Province: In Pechigram District, police claim six Mujahideen were killed by their own landmines. In Khogyani District, police say a U.S. led NATO drone strike killed two people and wounded two others. On top of that, police killed a man driving a Mazda pickup truck. They claim the truck was packed with explosives. An unnamed administrator at the 50 years old Nangarhar University revealed this about the student body: “A large number of students at Nangarhar University work for Taliban and other terrorist groups. Just last year, more than 10 students were killed in the battle with Afghan security forces. Many others are still in jail. The university officials are fully aware of this challenge but are unable to cope with.”
Japan is giving Afghanistan $20-million USD, with no strings attached. It’s called a non-project grant and can be used for anything. In this case the money comes as the afghan government recently asked the international community for a bailout loan of half a billion U.S. dollars! Japanese administrators say the money should be used to help Afghanistan overcome the ’emergency governmental logistics’ of being broke.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of Russia, warned that the U.S., EU and Saudi created Islamic State is trying to take over Afghanistan.
In Syria, dozens of Afghans have been killed while fighting against the U.S., EU and Saudi created Islamic State. One Afghan has been captured by Islamic State.
The Al Arabiya news agency reported Iran has banned Afghans from living in nine Iranian provinces, but gave no reasons why.
More than 100 militia-personnel of the Army National Guard’s 876th Engineer Company (Georgia U.S.A.) returned from Afghanistan.
At least 130 militia-personnel of the Army National Guard’s 747th Military police company and the 211 Military Police Detachment (Massachusetts U.S.A., you know, Boston Strong where they love a police state) returned from GTMO (GuanTanaMO Bay, Cuba).