Feb.19., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Evening Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – A coalition security force discovered a weapons cache during a routine patrol in Zharay district, Kandahar province, today. The cache consisted of 16 mortar rounds, 12 recoilless rifle rounds and approximately 62 pounds (28 kilograms) of home-made explosives. The security force confiscated all weapons and explosives to be destroyed at a later...

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Two Terrorist Groups Captured in Mazar

Image via Wikipedia Two groups of terrorists who intended to disrupt Afghanistan's New Year celebrations in March were captured by Afghan security forces in northern Balkh province, local officials said on Sunday. Afghan forces are fully prepared to provide security for the New Year - or Nawroz - celebrations which will happen on March 20, Provincial Police Chief...

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Algeria: four people killed in a bomb explosion in Boumerdes

Image via Wikipedia ALGIERS, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and nine others injured Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion in Boumerdes province, 50 km east of the Algerian capital Algiers.The local radio quoted a security source as saying that the roadside bomb exploded on the national road 12, on the point linking the localities of Isser and Bordj Menaiel, east...

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Bomb kills 8 anti-Taliban tribesmen in Pakistan

Map of Pakistan (Photo credit: Omer Wazir) PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A local government official says a time bomb has killed eight members of an anti-Taliban militia in northwest Pakistan.Tribal agency official Iqbal Khan says six more members of the militia were wounded in the Sunday incident in the Tirah valley of the Khyber tribal region.He says the militia was set up to...

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15 killed, 21 wounded in suicide bomb attack in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 21 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a police academy in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.The attack took place in the afternoon when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive vest at the entrance of the police academy in Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, the source...

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20 Taliban fighters surrender in Herat, Afghanistan (photos)

Taliban fighters attend a surrendering ceremony in western Afghan province of Herat, Feb. 18, 2012. A total 20 Taliban fighters surrendered here on Saturday, a provincial police source said. (Xinhua/Sardar)        ...

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R.I.P. - Sgt. Jerry D. Reed II

DOD Identifies Army Casualty             The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.        Sgt. Jerry D. Reed II, 30, of Russellville, Ark., died Feb. 16, in Paktika province, Afghanistan.            ...

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NATO looking into reports of chopper crash in Afghanistan

Image via Wikipedia Kabul, Afghanistan -- A local official reported a NATO helicopter crashed Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, though there was no immediate confirmation from coalition forces. A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, Capt. Justin Brockhoff, said ISAF officials are looking into the reported incident but have no indications that...

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