Norwegian Army Col. Fred Arne Jacobsen: commander Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Maimanah, the capital of Faryab Province
Commander, 1st Brigade, 209th Corps Afghan Army: Brig. Gen. Noor Mohammed
Faryab Provincial Governor: Abdul Haq Shafaq
Operation Wahadat: The operation, which was led by Afghan national security forces, secured the Tri-provincial area between Jowzjan, Sar-e Pul and Faryab province. (ISAF, 2 mei 2011).
Faryab
Fāryāb is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. Its capital is Maymana. The majority of the population is Uzbek.
In the mid-1990s, during the Afghan Civil War, the front line between Taliban and opposition forces often fell between Badghis and Faryab provinces.
Ismail Khan, former Herati warlord, also fled to Faryab to reconstitute his forces following the Taliban takeover of Herat, but was betrayed by Abdul Malik Pahlawan.
On 23 May 1997, Abdul Malik Pahlawan raised the Taliban flag over the capital of Maimana, switching sides and initiating a renewed Taliban offensive from the west.
Following a series of changing allegiances and falling out with Malik, the Taliban withdrew from the area, but in 1998 a contigent of 8,000 Taliban troops pressed through Faryab, seizing Abdul Rashid Dostum's headquarters in Sheberghan, in neighboring Jowzjan province.
