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Update for Sunday, October 29, 2017
Today in Afghanistan A U.S. military service member is killed, 6 injured in a helicopter crash in Logar. NATO command says enemy action was not involve. Local sources say the helicopter hit a tree.
Thirteen Afghan police are killed in attacks on checkpoints in Kunduz.
Nine police and 12 Taliban killed in fighting in Ghazni.
Deputy governor of Kunar province, Mohammad Nabi, in Pakistan for medical treatment, is allegedly abducted. He is reportedly an activist in Hezb-e-Islami, presumably the Khalis faction since the organization founded by Gulbuddin Hekmyatar is considered a terrorist organization, whereas the non-violent faction is a registered political party in Afghanistan.
Fighting in Zabul kills 6 police and 8 militants.
Taliban said to burn hundreds of houses in villages in Sar-e-Pul. The motive is not explained but presumably the locals have opposed them.
U.S. state department officials say Taliban still have safe haven in Pakistan. Today in Afghanistan
Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2017/10/update-for-sunday-october-29-2017.html
