2 children injured in Quetta toy bomb blast

QUETTA: Two children were injured in a toy bomb blast on Shah Wakshah road in the provincial capital on Friday.Police sources said that unknown men had placed a toy bomb on Shah Wakshah road that exploded when two passers-by children touched it. Resultantly, both children received serious injuries.The rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the wounded children to civil...

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Security forces shot dead six militants in Uruzgan

TIRINKOT (PAN): Security forces shot dead six Taliban militants in Charchino district in central Uruzgan province on Friday morning, according to authorities.Charchino police chief Walidad told Pajhwok Afghan News that a clash took place in Dawan area in the district around 4 am, when militants stormed a police check post.In a counter attack security forces shot dead the...

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Nov. 30., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani leader and a Haqqani facilitator in Logar province, Nov. 30.The arrested leader acquired weapons for Haqqani fighters and directed attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout Muhammad Aghah district, Logar province. At the time of his arrest, he was overseeing the movement of improvised...

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Nov. 30., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces killed an insurgent, and cleared improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours Nov. 29.Kunar provinceAfghan National Army soldiers and coalition forces found and safely cleared two IEDs in Sabari district.Paktika provinceAfghan National Army soldiers and coalition forces...

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Al-Qaida commander captured by security forces in southern Yemen

map by Evan Centanni (www.polgeonow.com) ADEN, Yemen, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Yemeni security forces on Thursday detained a high-level commander of the Yemen-based al- Qaida wing in the southern province of Abyan, the state-run Saba news agency reported."A high-level al-Qaida commander in southern region, Sulman Hassan Murshid, has been captured in Abyan during an operation...

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