The Ring of Steel ( fa, كمربندى شهرى كابل, ''Kamerband-i Shahr-i Kabul'', "Belt of the City of Kabul") was a series of 25

Afghan National Police The Afghan National Police (ANP; ps, د افغانستان ملي پولیس; prs, پلیس ملی افغانستان), is the national police force of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, serving as a single law enforcement agency all across ...

checkpoints in the city of

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

. Set up in June 2010, the Ring of Steel was designed for security purposes and manned, who occasionally stop and check suspicious vehicles attempting to pass through.https://www.wired.com/2010/09/wired-coms-guide-to-driving-in-kabul/

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