Ahmad Aba District ( ps, احمد ابا ولسوالۍ, fa, ولسوالی احمد آبا), also known as Ahmadabad District, is a district in

Paktia Province Paktia (Pashto/Dari: – ''Paktyā'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktia Province is divided into 15 districts and has a population of roughly ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. It is located to the east of

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, the provincial capital of Paktia. Ahmad Aba District was created in 2005 within Said Karam District.

History

On 16 May 2020, in an overnight attack on a security checkpoint in Ahmad Aba District, the

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist, militant Islamist, jihadist, and Pasht ...

killed eight Afghan soldiers and wounded nine others. The soldiers had been providing security for a multi-purpose dam.

External links

*Tom Coghlan.
Can tribes take on the Taleban?
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(26 December 2007).
Paktika Executive Summary
(PDF) at Naval Postgraduate School

References

Districts of Paktia Province {{Paktia-geo-stub