UK Troops In Afghanistan Launch 'Major Offensive' Against Taliban

U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie L. Carl - via Wikipedia A major offensive on Taliban strongholds has been launched by Afghan security forces, supported by British troops. Among those overseeing the Afghan-led operation launched on Friday in the area surrounding Helmand's second city of Gereshk were members of 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. The regiment...

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2 mine planters killed in NATO air raid at Khost province

According to local authorities in eastern Khost province, at least 2 militant suspects who were planting roadside bombs were killed and another suspect was injured following an air raid by coalition security forces in this province. The officials further added, the militants were killed and injured at Deri area in central region of eastern Khost province. Provincial...

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Five Insurgents Killed, 35 Captured across Afghanistan

At least five insurgents were killed and 35 others have been captured across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, the Afghan Ministry of Interior said Sunday. Sixteen separate Afghan national police operations to clear areas of insurgents were undertaken across 10 provinces - Kapisa, Faryab, Kandahar, Helmand, Maidan, Wardak, Ghazni, Logar, Khost and Paktia, the Ministry...

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Yemeni warplanes bomb al-Qaida bases in restive south, 18 killed

ADEN, Yemen, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Yemeni warplanes bombed several bases of the al-Qaida terrorist group in the southern province of Abyan on Sunday, killing at least 18 terrorists and injuring dozens of others, a government official told Xinhua. Heavy shelling by the Yemeni military aircrafts and U.S. naval vessels on the sea hit the al-Qaida bases in and around...

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Militants kill American teacher in Yemen

Image via Wikipedia (Reuters) - Two men on a motorcycle shot and killed an American teacher in the Yemeni city of Taiz, south of the capital Sanaa, on Sunday morning, a local police source said. A gunman riding on the motorcycle driven by an accomplice shot the man, an English-language teacher and deputy director of a local language school called the Swedish Institute,...

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Two Policemen Killed in Herat Blast

Two Afghan policemen died when their vehicle hit a hidden roadside bomb in western Herat province today, local officials said Sunday. One other policeman was wounded in the blast. The police vehicle exploded when it struck a road landmine at around 11:00am in the Shindand district of Herat, provincial spokesman Mahaiuddin Noori said. No group, including the Taliban, has...

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Jets bomb al Shabaab base in southern Somalia

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Jets bombed a base run by Islamist al Shabaab rebels north of Somalia’s Kismayu port on Saturday, local residents and officials said, but it was not clear who carried out the raid or whether there were casualties. Kenya sent troops into anarchic Somalia in October after cross-border raids and kidnappings that it blamed on al Shabaab, which has allied...

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R.I.P. - 2nd Lt. Clovis T. Ray

DOD Identifies Army Casualty              The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             2nd Lt. Clovis T. Ray, 34, of San Antonio, Texas died Mar. 15 at Kunar province, Afghanistan...

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