Afghan Commander Says 13 Foreign Militants Killed

KANDAHAR -- An Afghan military commander claims to have killed 13 Pakistani and Arab militants during an ongoing military sweep in Ghazni province. General Daud Wafadar, commander of Afghan National Army forces in Ghazni, told REF/RL Radio Mashaal on April 25 that the militants were killed in a joint Afghan-NATO operation that began one day earlier. Wafadar said the...

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R.I.P. - CWO Nicholas S. Johnson, CWO Don C. Viray, Sgt. Chris J. Workman, Sgt. Dean R. Shaffer

DOD Identifies Army Casualties             The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of four soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             They died April 19, in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when their Black Hawk (UH-60) crashed. ...

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R.I.P. - Sergeant Valerian Khujadze

Sgt Valerian Khujadze, who was serving with the NATO-led ISAF operation in Helmand Province, has been killed by an (IED) improvised explosive device. Sgt Khujadze of the 31st Battalion was patrolling when the IED exploded and he died from his injuries, Georgian TV station Rustavi2 reported. He had been serving in the Georgian Armed Forces since 2004 and took part in...

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5 Afghan soldiers killed, 3 injured in Ghazni and Herat

Afghan defense ministry following a statement on Wednesday announced at least 8 Afghan national army soldiers were killed and injured in eastern Ghazni and Herat provinces of Afghanistan. The statement further added, 7 Afghan national army soldiers were killed and injured in eastern Ghazni province and 1 Afghan national army soldier was injured in western Herat province. At...

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R.I.P. - 1st Lt. Jonathan P. Walsh, Pfc. Michael J. Metcalf

Left: Jonathan P. Walsh, Right: Michael J. Metcalf DOD Identifies Army Casualties             The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             They died April 22 in Paktia, Afghanistan,...

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Apr.24.,2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition forces killed three insurgents and captured five suspects in eastern Afghanistan during operations throughout the past 24 hours, April 24. Laghman province A coalition airstrike killed three armed insurgents emplacing an improvised explosive device in Mehtar Lam. An explosive ordnance disposal team disabled the IED and brought...

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Nigeria: JTF Bursts Another Boko Haram Bomb Factory, Kills Three

The Joint military Task Force (JTF) in the wee hours of yesterday invaded a suspected Boko Haram bomb factory at Haye, a suburb of Hotoron Arewa Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State, arrested a number of persons and carted away bomb-making materials. Elsewhere in Maiduguri, Borno State, the sect suffered another misfortune as three of its suspected members were...

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Soldier killed, 5 injured in attacks in Iraq

BAGHDAD, April 24 (Xinhua) -- An Iraqi soldier was killed and five people were injured in separate bomb attacks in northern and western Iraq on Tuesday, the police said.In Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, a booby-trapped car detonated near an Iraqi army vehicle in al-Hadbaa district in northern of the provincial capital city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, killing...

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3 hurt in southern Philippine blast

COTABATO, Philippines, April 25 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were wounded following a grenade explosion on Tuesday night in the restive southern Philippines, police said Wednesday. The provincial police commander Cornelio Salinas said that two unknown men on board a motorbike tossed a grenade at the house of trader Gerry Gornez at 6:10 p.m. in the township of Midsayap...

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Haqqani Network leader killed in Khost province

NATO-led International Security Assistance Force officials following a statement on Wednesday announced, a Haqqani Network leader was killed following a joint military operation by Afghan and coalition security forces in eastern Khost province. The statement further added, the leader, named Namat, organized roadside bombings and other attacks against Afghan and coalition...

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20 armed insurgents killed, four wounded and 11 others arrested by Afghan National Police

20 armed insurgents killed, four wounded and 11 others arrested by Afghan National Police Counterterrorism: During the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces launched 15 joint clearance operations in Kabul, Kapisa, Kandahar, Helmand, Logar, Ghazni, and Paktiya provinces. As a result of these operations, 20 armed...

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Apr.25., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (Apr. 25) — An Afghan-led security force conducted an operation to detain a Haqqani leader in Nadir Shah Kot district, Khost province, today.  The leader, named Namat, organized roadside bombings and other attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces throughout the district.  As the security force approached his suspected location,...

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AQAP commander thought killed in US drone strike

By Bill Roggio - April 24, 2012 - LWJ A senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who trained at a camp in Afghanistan more than a decade ago was killed in a recent airstrike in southern Yemen. The airstrike is one of two thought to have been carried out by US-operated unmanned strike aircraft over the past several days. Mohammed Saeed al...

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