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24-586: Tarinkot District , also spelled as Tarin Kowt , is a district of Uruzgan Province , Afghanistan . The capital of the district and the province is the town called Tarinkot . In Tarinkot district, two Pashtun tribal confederations are represented, the Tareen or Tarin tribes: Popolzai, Barakzai, Alikozai, Achakzai; and the Ghilzai tribes: Tokhi, Hotak, Suleiman-Khel. This Orūzgān Province , Afghanistan location article

48-498: A battlegroup and an air detachment. The battlegroup consisted of infantry with armored vehicles and artillery Howitzers , and was based around 13 Infanteriebataljon . Elements of 42 en 43 Brigadeverkenningseskadron were also based as part of the battlegroup. F-16 MLU's, six AH-64D Apache and five Eurocopter AS 532 helicopters of the Royal Netherlands Air Force were there to support them if needed. The PRT

72-404: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Uruzgan Province Uruzgan province is located in southern Afghanistan, bordering Zabul and Kandahar to the south, Helmand to the southwest, Daykundi to the north, and Ghazni to the east. Uruzgan covers an area of 12,640 square kilometres (1,264,000 ha). Much of the province is mountainous or semi-mountainous terrain, while

96-831: The Seleucids to rule. It was later attained and ruled by the Mauryas under Ashoka . By the 7th century, when the Arabs first arrived, it was under the control of the Zunbils before being conquered in the name of Islam by the Saffarids in the 9th century. It fell to the Ghaznavids followed by the Ghurids before the Mongol invasion in the 13th century. The area was ruled by Arghun Khan of Ilkhanate , later by

120-756: The Timurids , Mughals and Safavids . In 1709, the Hotak dynasty rose to power in Kandahar and defeated the Safavids. Then, he took control of the entire southern Afghanistan while most of the Durrani Pashtuns were settled in the Herat area at the time. In 1747, one of Nader Shah 's commanders, Ahmad Shah Durrani , became leader of the Afghans and the region of Uruzgan was one of

144-587: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), as no significant eradication efforts were carried out by the Afghan administration or Dutch forces. Between 15 and 19 June 2007, Dutch, American, Australian and Afghan soldiers defended the town of Chora against an assault by Taliban combatants. Reports in the Dutch, Australian and US press indicated that the battle was one of the largest Taliban offensives of

168-650: The Central Statistics Office Afghanistan, and the Liaison Office study 2009. Task Force Uruzgan Task Force Uruzgan ( TFU ) was Australia 's and the Netherlands ' contribution to NATO 's Regional Command South , International Security Assistance Force , in Afghanistan . The Dutch led one of the four Provincial Reconstruction Teams in the southern region of the country. Mandated by

192-583: The Dutch " inkspot policy ". However, the force's area of responsibility included the entire province. Gizab district, which was then the most dangerous of Uruzgan's district, had no ISAF presence before. In August 2010, the 1,950 Dutch forces withdrew their forces from Uruzgan province, after a political disagreement in the Dutch parliament, leaving the PRT to the US and Australia to continue the mission. Uruzgan's opium poppy crop reached record levels in 2006 and 2007, according to

216-869: The Dutch Parliament in February 2006, between 1,200 to 1,400 Dutch military were tasked to maintain order in Uruzgan Province through July 2010. They were also to develop political and economic infrastructure and to train the Afghan National Police . The unit was located at one Main Operating Base (MOB) and a few smaller Forward Operating Bases (FOB): the MOB was Kamp Holland at Multi National Base Tarin Kot in Tarinkot ,

240-575: The Taliban by ISAF forces in late April 2010 and this was attributed to the uprising of the townspeople who helped the ISAF forces. In February 2010, near Khod, over ten civilians in a three-vehicle convoy were killed by a combined force of a Lockheed AC-130 , Bell OH-58 Kiowa helicopters and General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drones, who misidentified them as Taliban. The air forces were attempting to protect ground troops fighting several km away. As of May 2014,

264-630: The US as Task Force Uruzgan . There is also an Australian element under the Dutch command. Because of security concerns and the Taliban insurgency , only one international aid agency ( GIZ ) has a permanent presence in Uruzgan. NATO's ISAF operates a PRT in Tarinkot. The 1,400 Dutch and 1,090 Australian troops in the area secured only the largest population centers in Uruzgan (Deh Rawood, Chora, and Tarinkot towns) under

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288-579: The United States and Australia on August 1, 2010. The Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement that the security situation in central Uruzgan province had improved "considerably" since the beginning of the Dutch operations. The province has 1,600 police officers of its own, a 100% gain in four years. There were 1,900 Dutch soldiers operating in Afghanistan. With this withdrawal, the Netherlands became

312-656: The area. In June 2002, a wedding party in Uruzgan was bombed by the U.S. Air Force , which resulted in the death of 30 civilians. In 2004, the new Daykundi Province was carved out of an area of northern Uruzgan. In August 2006, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) assumed authority for Uruzgan from the US-led coalition, as the Netherlands took command of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) from

336-487: The capital of Uruzgan province. There were a few smaller FOBs Camp Hadrian  [ nl ] 60 kilometres (37 mi) west of Tarinkot near a town called Deh Rahwod , FOB Coyote north of Deh Rawod near a place called Chutu and FOB Phoenix on the west bank of the Helmand river near the town of Tor Nasser. The TFU was under the command of Colonel Kees Matthijssen and consisted of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT),

360-579: The first to become part of his new Durrani Empire , which became what is now the modern state of Afghanistan. During the 1980's Soviet war in Afghanistan , Uruzgan witnessed fighting between pro-Soviet forces and the Mujahideen . One of the most prominent local Mujahideen leaders was Jan Mohammad Khan . In late 1994, Uruzgan was captured by the Taliban . They were toppled by US-led forces in late 2001. Hamid Karzai and his followers arrived in Uruzgan between October and November 2001 to take over control of

384-519: The province was served by Tarinkot Airport which had regularly scheduled direct passenger service to Kabul . The percentage of households with clean drinking water increased from 8% in 2005 to 27% in 2011. The percentage of births attended to by a skilled birth attendant increased from 6% in 2005 to 14% in 2011. The overall literacy rate (6+ years of age) increased from 5% in 2005 to 17% in 2011. The overall net enrollment rate (6–13 years of age) increased from 1% in 2005 to 49% in 2011. As of 2020,

408-493: The relatives of 21 Dutch military who died on foreign missions were presented with official government documents honoring the deceased. At a ceremony in The Hague Defence Minister Van Middelkoop ( ChristenUnie ) personally handed the documents to their relatives, who also received a commemorative sculpture. In The Netherlands, the tradition to decorate military killed in action had been abolished, but

432-547: The rest of the area is made up of flat land. The Arabs were first to arrive in Uruzgan in the 7th century when they brought Islam to the region followed by the Saffarids who conquered the place in the 9th century. The region was part of ancient Arachosia , and was ruled by the Medes before it fell to the Achaemenids . In 330 BC, Alexander the Great occupied the area but left it to

456-554: The son of general Peter van Uhm , the former Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff, who was killed in a roadside bombing just one day after his father assumed command. About 140 Dutch were injured. On May 29, 2009 Marco Kroon , who fought in Afghanistan, was awarded the Militaire Willems-orde , the highest medal awarded by the Netherlands, which has not been given to anyone for over 50 years. In December 2009,

480-456: The total population of the province is about 436,079. The province has an estimated 45,000 households, each with about six members on average. A large portion of Uruzgan's population belongs to ethnic Pashtuns and ethnic Hazaras . There is also a small population of Kochis , whose numbers vary with the seasons. Population figures are from the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development ,

504-480: The year. The fighting resulted in the deaths of a Dutch soldier, 1 Australian soldier, 1 American soldier, 16 Afghan policemen, an unknown number of civilians and a large number of Taliban. In September 2008, Rozi Khan , the leader of Uruzgan's Pashtun Barakzai tribe, and a longtime rival of Popalzai leader Jan Mohammed Khan, was killed in a firefight in Chora District . Gizab District was temporarily cleared of

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528-408: Was a proposal that Americans would continue the Dutch military's work in collaboration with Australia and Singapore, two other ISAF-members that also have troops stationed in Uruzgan. After August 2010, the Dutch were to be replaced by a U.S.-led coalition force including Australian, Slovak and Singaporean soldiers. The departure of the Dutch troops started when the command was actually transferred to

552-572: Was reinstated by Minister Van Middelkoop. Among the recipients was the Netherlands' Commander in Chief, General Van Uhm , whose son Dennis was killed in action in Uruzgan in April 2008, just a day after his father Van Uhm took over the command. All Dutch troops were scheduled to withdraw from Uruzgan in 2010. The United States took over from The Netherlands, stated Van Uhm during a television talk-show in May 2010. There

576-567: Was working together with Australian troops and the Afghan National Security Forces . During June 2007 a Taliban offensive and a Dutch counterattack proved to be the heaviest fighting in Uruzgan province since ISAF extended its Area of Responsibility to the south of Afghanistan. A large part of Task Force Uruzgan's battlegroup took part in the Battle of Chora . Around 25 Dutch soldiers, airmen and marines were said to be killed, including

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