Fleet of 'double-V hull' Strykers growing in Afghanistan

Image via WikipediaThe Army’s new “double-V hull” Stryker armored personnel carriers patrolled for six months in Afghanistan, helping soldiers within survive a dozen bomb hits, before the first combat deaths in the vehicle last month. The eight-wheeled truck, which features a V-shaped hull to deflect blasts away from its crew compartment, was rushed into production in...

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Roadside bomb kills 4 civilians in Kandahar province

Saturday, December 10, 2011 – According to local governmental officials in southern Afghanistan, at least four Afghan civilians were killed in two separate improvised explosive device explosion in southern Kandahar province. The officials further added, both the incidents took place on Saturday morning in this province. Provincial governor spokesman for Kandahar province...

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Three Afghan police officer killed in Taliban ambush

Saturday, December 10, 2011 – According to local authorities in southern Afghanistan, at least three Afghan national police forces were killed in a Taliban ambush in southern Helmand province early Saturday morning. Deputy for the provincial joint forces coordination centre Gen. Mohammad Ismail Hotak confirming the report said, the incident took place around 10:00 am...

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Pakis Deploy Air Defense along Afghan Border

VoA: A senior Pakistani military officer says the government has deployed air defense weapons on the country's border with Afghanistan, following the NATO airstrikes last month that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reports Major General Ashfaq Nadeem says the new deployment of the border weapons was aimed at preventing “fresh attacks”...

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Jihadi Commander Killed in Kunduz Blast

Image via WikipediaAfghan local officials on Saturday said that Shir Mohammad Arab, chief Afsotr and a former Jihadi commander was killed in a bomb blast in northern Kunduz city. The blast took place at 12:30 pm local time in Chok-e-Kunduz when a bomb that was placed on a bicycle exploded, killing three including Mr Arab and wounding sixteen others,  Samiullah Qatra,...

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Pakistani Taliban confirms peace talks with Islamabad

Deputy Commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, who has been waging a four-year war against Islamabad, has confirmed that both sides are in peace talks. "Our talks are going in the right direction," The Dawn quoted Mohammad, the commander of the Pakistani Taliban in the Bajaur tribal agency and the number two commander overall, as saying....

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Dec. 10., 2011. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – A combined Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban leader in Maidan Shahr district, Wardak province, today. The leader planned attacks against Afghan security forces and supplied fighters with weapons and ammunition for use in attacks. During the operation, the security force safely destroyed a bomb-making factory and its contents,...

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Syrian forces kill at least 14 activists

NICOSIA: At least 14 people, four of them children, were killed as Syrian security forces opened fire in several cities on Friday, with most of the victims falling in the restive region of Homs, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 civilians were killed in and around Homs, two in Daraa, cradle of anti-regime protests since March, one civilian in Hama and another in Douma near Damascus. Twenty-three civilians were wounded in Homs, it said. The opposition Syrian National Council earlier warned of the dangers of...

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USS Carney Disrupts Pirate Attack in Gulf of Aden

From U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs USS CARNEY, At Sea (NNS) -- USS Carney (DDG 64), part of NATO's counter-piracy task force Operation Ocean Shield, worked with other NATO forces and coalition partners to disrupt pirate activity in the Gulf of Aden, Dec. 5. (April  2007) - The guided missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) underway in...

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Britain to Start Afghanistan Exit in Late 2013

Image via WikipediaLondon, Dec 9 -- Exit of some 4,000 British soldiers from Afghanistan before the end of 2013 depends on next week’s National Security Council approval, says The Guardian.   The daily says the initiative submitted to PM David Cameron enjoys support from at least another two cabinet brass, among other, to help reduce expenses in 10-year military...

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Pentagon orders 30 more F-35s from Lockheed

Image via WikipediaLockheed Martin has been awarded a $4 billion contract to produce 30 more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the Pentagon announced Friday. The fixed-price-incentive contract provides for 21 F-35A conventional take off and landing Lightning IIs for the Air Force, three F-35B short-take off and vertical landing aircraft...

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R.I.P. - Sapper Elijah Bond

Sapper Elijah Bond dies in UK from wounds sustained in AfghanistanA Military Operations news article 9 Dec 11 It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Sapper Elijah Bond of 35 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers at the Queen Elizabeth NHS Hospital, Birmingham. Sapper Bond [Picture: via MOD] Serving with the Task...

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