R.I.P. - Lance Corporal Matthew David Smith

The Ministry of Defence has named a serviceman, killed in Afghanistan on Friday, 10th August.Lance Corporal Matthew David Smith served with the Corps of Royal Engineers. He was 26 years old, and had four children, aged between one and seven years old. Lance Corporal Smith was part of a troop building a new checkpoint in the Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand when he was hit...

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Afghan police officer kill 11 comrades in western Afghanistan

According to local authorities in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan, at least 11 Afghan national police officers were killed by a suspected militant who had disguised himself among the Afghan security police forces. Provincial governor Karim Barahawi confirming the report said the incident took place around 1:30 pm local time in a security check post at Delaram district. Mr....

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R.I.P. - Lieutenant Andrew Chesterman

Lieutenant Andrew Chesterman killed in Afghanistan A Military Operations news article 11 Aug 12 It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce the death of Lieutenant Andrew Robert Chesterman of the 3rd Battalion The Rifles, who died as a result of wounds sustained by enemy action in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand Province...

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24 rebels eliminated in Khost airstrike

Khost City/KABUL (PAN): Twenty-four Taliban fighters were killed as a result of an airstrike by NATO-led troops in southeastern Khost province, officials said on Saturday. Three Afghan and several Pakistani militants from the North Waziristan tribal region were killed in the overnight raid in the Gabar area of Musakhel district, the deputy police chief said. Col. Mohammad...

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Three more U.S. soldiers killed by Afghans in grim day for NATO

Garmsir (bottom-right) in Helmand Province. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for NATO-led forces during which six American soldiers were killed in rogue attacks. The shooting took place on Friday night in the Garmsir district of Helmand province,...

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Aug. 11., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force discovered an insurgent bomb-making facility and seized more than 180 kilograms (400 pounds) of explosives during a security operation in Muqer district, Ghazni province, today. During the search of the bomb-making facility, the security force also seized improvised explosive device components. One suspected...

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Aug. 11., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces killed 17 insurgents, detained six and cleared six improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Aug. 10. Ghazni province A coalition airstrike killed an insurgent in Andar district who was emplacing an improvised explosive device. Khowst province Afghan Uniformed...

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Al-Qaida suspects attack army checkpoint in southeast Yemen, 3 killed

map by Evan Centanni (www.polgeonow.com) ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Suspected al-Qaida militants attacked an army checkpoint in Yemen's southeastern province of Hadramout on Friday evening, leaving at least three soldiers killed, a security official told Xinhua. A group of masked gunmen with assault rifles attacked a checkpoint along the main road linking Hadramout...

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