Significats de afghan district en anglès

The Taliban control or contest more than half of Afghanistan's 410 Afghan districts.

Afghan district officials said their forces were pushing the Taliban back out of the districts.

The bomber blew himself up at the gate of the base, an Afghan district official in Khost province said.

Also in March the Taliban said they had captured the crucial south Afghan district of Sangin after a year-long battle.

Elsewhere, a roadside bomb killed an Afghan district intelligence chief, his driver and two bodyguards in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial official said.

An Afghan district governor and five police were killed today in a Taliban ambush in the western province of Herat, the province's police chief said.

The report said the population only supports Karzai's government in 29 of the 121 Afghan districts considered most strategically important in the war effort.

The Pentagon also said the population only supported Karzai's government in 29 of the 121 Afghan districts considered most strategically important in the war.

Insurgent violence, he said, is now concentrated in smaller areas: 10 out of 405 Afghan districts are now responsible for half of the attacks nationwide.

The Pentagon said the population supports the Kabul-based government in only 29 of the 121 Afghan districts considered most strategically important in the war effort.