Attack on Italian base in Afghanistan, 1 dead & 5 injured

Herat - An Italian soldier has died and 5 have been injured in an attack with mortar shells against a military base in Herat. The attack took place at around 6 pm local time (2:30 pm Italian time) against the "ICE" FOB (Forward Operative Base) in Gulistan, in the South-Eastern sector under Italian jurisdiction assigned to the South-East Task Force, and specifically to the...

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5,000 anti-personnel mines seized in Kandahar

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Nearly 5,000 anti-personnel landmines were seized by border police in the Shorabak district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. The mines were received from two tractors in the Zali area of the district, the governor’s spokesman, Zalmai Ayubi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The drivers were killed during a clash with police. He...

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Somalia: Kenyan Jets Kill 2, Wound 3 Civilians in South Somalia

Bardere — At least two innocent civilians were killed and three others injured late on Friday in an aerial attack by Kenyan fighter jets in Gedo region of southern Somalia, residents said. New reports say the Kenyan jets bombed on Takarre village, 55 Km away west of Baredere district of Gedo region, under the control of Al-Shabab militants, killing more than two...

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Pakistani suicide bomber detained in Kandahar province

Provincial Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate for Security officials in southern Kandahar province announced to detain a Pakistani suicide bomber along with a Taliban militant in this province.The officials further added, the detained Pakistani suicide bomber is the resident of Karachi city and was appointed by insurgents group to carry out suicide bomb attack in...

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Al-Qaida militants overrun town in southeastern Yemen

ADEN, Yemen, March 24 (Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida branch seized a town on Saturday in Yemen's southeastern province of Shabwa, local officials told Xinhua.Dozens of the terrorists armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles swept into the coastal town of Radhoum, 30 km east of the al-Qaida-seized city of Azzan in Shabwa province and took full control...

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Teenage bombers among 10 detained

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Eight insurgents and two teenage suicide bombers have been detained in Kandahar, Helmand and Uruzgan provinces, officials said on Saturday. Fifteen-year-old Hanzala, who belongs to Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, confessed to his plans for suicide attacks during preliminary investigations, an intelligence official revealed. Speaking to Pajhwok...

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Roadside bomb planter killed in Baghlan province

According to local authorities in northern Baghlan province, an insurgent was killed at Chawk-e-Pashtunistan in central Baghlan district while he was planting a roadside improvised explosvie device.Gen. Asadullah Shirzad provincial security chief for northern Baghlan province said, the incident took place on Friday night while the insurgent was planting a roadside bomb at...

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2 killed, 5 injured in attacks in Iraq

BAGHDAD, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Two policemen were killed and five people injured Saturday in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in central and eastern Iraq, while the Iraqi security forces captured a suicide bomber in Baghdad, the police said. In central Iraq, a roadside bomb went off near a police vehicle in southern of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing one policeman...

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Former Afghan senator killed in Uruzgan province

According to local authorities in southern Uruzgan province, a former Afghan senator was killed along with a tribal elder following a roadside improvised explosive device explosion in this province. The officials further added, the incident took place around 1 pm local time on Saturday after the vehicle of a former Afghan senator Haji Khairullah Aqa struck with a roadside...

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Silver Star awarded to Army captain for heroism under fire

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Daniel Allyn, Regional Command East and 1st Cavalry Division commander, awards the Silver Star Medal to Capt. Ivan Torres, an infantry commander from Killeen, Texas, assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division’s Headquarters Services Company at Combat Outpost Red Hill in Parwan Province, March 18. Torres was awarded for...

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Mar.24., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (Mar. 24) — An Afghan National Security Forces Crisis Response Unit conducted an operation in Surobi district, Kabul province, yesterday.  Afghan forces recovered a number of explosive devices, components and weapons to include: two mortar fuzes, IED-detonators, rocket propellants, various IED components and small arms. The material was confiscated...

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