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

Afghan National Police The Afghan National Police (ANP; ; ), also known as the Afghan Police, is the national police force of the Afghanistan, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, serving as a single law enforcement agency all across the country. The first police officer i ...

checkpoints in the city of

Kabul Kabul 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. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...

. Set up in June 2010, the Ring of Steel was designed for security purposes and intermittently staffed. Transiting vehicles are occasionally stopped and checked.

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