14 Taliban militants give up fighting in northern Afghan town

(file photo) MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- More than a dozen Taliban fighters gave up fighting and resumed normal life in Balkh province 305 km north of capital city Kabul on Tuesday. "Fourteen of our dissident brothers gave up fighting and handed over their weapons to police in Charbolak district today," provincial police chief Mohammad Salim Ahsas...

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Al Qaeda denies Maghreb commander killed in clashes

LONDON (Reuters) - Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a founder of al Qaeda's North African offshoot, is alive and leading military operations, an associate said on Tuesday, denying a report that the Algerian had been killed in clashes in Mali in late June. Nicknamed the "uncatchable", Belmokhtar is believed to be linked to the kidnappings of foreigners that have taken place in remote...

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Pak Taliban planning prison break in Faisalabad, says intelligence report

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants are planning an attack on the Central Jail Faisalabad to release their imprisoned high-profile accomplices, intelligence reports have revealed. According to intelligence reports, the Taliban also plan to abduct Tariq Mahmood Khan Babar, the jail's superintendent, in order to...

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Suicide bomber targets funeral ceremony in Ghazni

According to local authorities in eastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, a suicide bomber attacked a funeral ceremony in eastern Ghazni city on Tuesday. The incident took place after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives during a burial ceremony of the father of a provincial intelligence official. Provincial security chief Gen. Mohammad Hussain confirming the report...

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Four Civilians Dead, Police Chief Hurt in Afghan Bombing

Districts of Kandahar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Kabul , Aug. 28 (BNA) - Four civilians were killed Tuesday in a truck bombing in southern Afghanistan that targeted a provincial police chief, an official said. police chief, Abdul Razeq, was injured along with 20 civilians when a suicide attacker detonated an explosives-filled truck near Razeq's car in Kandahar, capital...

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Aug. 28., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani leader and improvised explosive device specialist during an operation in Zurmat district, Paktiya province, today. The Haqqani IED specialist is responsible for numerous attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, including recent attacks against Afghan forces in Zurmat. During the operation,...

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Aug. 28., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces detained 17 insurgents and cleared five improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Aug. 27. Ghazni province Afghan National Army soldiers and coalition forces found and safely cleared an improvised explosive device in Dehyak district. Khowst province Afghan...

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Haqqani leader and IED specialist arrested in Paktiya

NATO-led International Security Assistance Force following a statement on Tuesday announced, Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani leader and improvised explosive device specialist during an operation in Zurmat district, Paktiya province, today. The Haqqani IED specialist is responsible for numerous attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, including...

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2 US Soldiers Die in Alleged Accidental Shooting?

" Then on Monday morning, two American soldiers were shot and killed by one of their Afghan colleagues in the east, military officials said, bringing to 12 the number of international troops -- all Americans -- to die at the hands of their local allies this month. But Afghan officials said Monday's attack in Laghman province was a separate case from the rash of recent...

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6 killed in latest violence in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- A total of six people were killed and 11 other wounded Monday in separate gunfire and bomb attacks in Iraq, the police said. The Brigadier General Abdul Mohsen Khazal was shot dead by gunmen with silenced weapons in Taji, some 20 km north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. In Iraq's northern province...

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Nigeria: JTF Rescues 27 Kidnapped Oil Workers in Bakassi

Bakassi (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Calabar — The Eastern Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy in collaboration with the Joint Task Force, Operation Pulo Shield, in Calabar, Cross River State, at the weekend rescued 27 oil workers who were kidnapped in Bakassi. A militant gang, Lactop Marine Force, in Bakassi, kidnapped 27 workers of a private oil company, Sinopec, at Ikang...

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A.U., Somali troops seize port of Marka from Islamists

African Union and Somali troops captured the key port of Marka from al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents on Monday, the latest in a string of bases to be wrested from the extremists, officials said. “We have taken Marka, we entered alongside the Somali government forces this morning,” said Colonel Ali Houmed, the spokesman for the African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM). “There...

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