Afghan kids killed following blast in Herat province

According to local security officials in western Herat province of Afghanistan, at least three Afghan kids were killed following an explosion in Gulran district in this province. Provincial police chief spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said the incident took place late Saturday evening in Gulran district. Mr. Ahmadi further added the incident took place while Afghan kids, all...

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Aug. 05., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition officials confirmed today that Mufti Assad, also known as Mufti Punjabi, Abdul Qudus and Sufyan, the al-Qaida network leader for Kunar province, was killed in a precision airstrike in Watahpur district, Kunar province, Friday. Assad was an insurgent leader who controlled al-Qaida terrorists operating in Kunar. He led dozens...

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Aug. 05., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces detained 10 insurgents, located three weapons caches and cleared nine improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Aug. 4. Ghazni province Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces discovered a weapons cache in Andar Ddstrict. The cache contained homemade...

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Two NZ soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Two New Zealand Defence Force personnel have been killed and six injured in Afghanistan. The NZDF said in a statement the two were serving with the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team. They were killed during an incident in the northeast of Bamiyan Province. A further six NZDF personnel were wounded during the incident and they were evacuated to a military hospital. Two...

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US drone strike kills 4 al-Qaida militants in southeast Yemen

SANAA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least four al-Qaida members were killed late Saturday in a U.S. air ride in Yemen's southeastern province of Hadramout, a provincial security official and witnesses said. "Four prominent members of the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were killed after a missile fired by a U.S. unmanned warplane hit their vehicle on a road in the north...

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20 killed in al-Qaida suicide attack in south Yemen

(map by Evan Centanni) SANAA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 people were killed late Saturday when an al-Qaida suicide bomber targeted a gathering of pro-government tribesmen in the country's southern province of Abyan, a police official told Xinhua. "An al-Qaida bomber detonated his concealed explosive belt among the crowd at a funeral in Jaar town in Abyan on Saturday...

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R.I.P. - 1st Lt. Todd W. Lambka, Pfc. Jesus J. Lopez

DOD Identifies Army Casualties              The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.              They died Aug. 1, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when they...

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Aug. 04., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban financier in Andar district, Ghazni province, Thursday. The detained Taliban financier oversaw the transfer of tens of thousands of Pakistani rupees to fund insurgent activities. He was also directly involved in planning and directing insurgent attacks against Afghan and coalition forces...

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Aug. 04., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Aug. 4, 2012) – Afghan and coalition forces killed 12 insurgents, detained 23 and cleared 15 improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Aug. 3. Ghazni province Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces found and safely cleared 10 improvised explosive devices, nine in Ab Band district...

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9 Taliban killed, 1 wounded and 11 arrested by ANP (Aug.04.2012.)

Publish Date: Aug 04, 2012 Nine Taliban killed, one wounded and 11 arrested by Afghan National Police Counterterrorism: During the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces launched four joint clearance operations in Kabul, Balkh, Paktika and Pakitya provinces. As a result of these operations,...

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Pirates attack ship off Nigeria, kidnap 4 foreigners

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Pirates attacked a ship being used by an oil servicing company in waters off southeastern Nigeria on Saturday, killing two Nigerian Naval guards and kidnapping four foreigners, the Navy said. "The incident was somewhere around the Niger Delta, where an oil servicing company was attacked by gunmen. We lost two of our men and four expatriates...

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At least 1 killed, 6 injured in suicide explosion in Kenya

NAIROBI, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was killed and six others injured on Friday night in a suicide explosion in Nairobi, the first since 1998 bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in what security analysts may be related to the Kenyan visit by the United State's Secretary of State on Saturday. Regional police commander Anthony Kibuchi, who confirmed...

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Women among 22 dead in new wave of violence in Afghanistan

KABUL (PAN): Twenty-two people were killed during gun attacks and an airstrike in eastern Kunar, central Logar and northern Faryab provinces, officials said on Saturday.  In Kunar, eighteen armed insurgents were killed during an air raid by foreign troops in Watapur district, Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News. The militants’ trenches came under...

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