May 26., 2013. - ISAF Joint Command Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani high-profile attack facilitator and one other insurgent during an operation in Pul-e ‘Alam district, Logar province, May 26. The facilitator is responsible for coordinating weapons, improvised explosive devices and suicide attackers for use in attacks targeting Afghan and coalition forces....

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In Several Joint Clearance Operations, 57 Armed Taliban Killed (May 26.2013.)

Publish Date: May 26, 2013 Counterterrorism: In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several joint clearance operations with the cooperation of Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces to clean some of the areas from terrorists and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan. The...

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Mother, son killed in Paktika rocket attack

Districts of Paktika Province (Photo credit: Wikipedia) KABUL (PAN): A mother and her four-year-old son were killed when a Taliban-fired rocket hit their home in the Zherook district of southeastern Paktika province, police said on Sunday.The incident took place in the Shimi village on Saturday evening, provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Daulat Khan Zadran, told Pajhwok...

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3 killed, 30 wounded in twin bombings in Iraq's Mosul

BAGHDAD, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers and a policeman were killed and 30 others wounded in two explosions that co-ordinately went off in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Sunday, a local police source said.The first blast occurred in the morning inside an under- construction house in the town of Shora, some 40 km south of Mosul, without causing any casualties, the source...

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Rockets Land in Hezbollah Stronghold in Beirut

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, gives a televised speech from an unknown location, May 25, 2013 Lebanese security officials say two rockets have hit a Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of Hezbollah militants. Reports say the rockets landed in the southern part of the Lebanese capital Sunday, wounding...

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May 26., 2013. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security and coalition forces killed 19 insurgents, discovered two weapons caches and found and safely cleared 11 improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, May 25. Ghazni province Afghan National Security and coalition forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations...

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Al-Qaida militants take over village in southeast Yemen

map by Evan Centanni (www.polgwonow.com) ADEN, Yemen, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of fighters of the Yemen- based al-Qaida offshoot took control of a small village in the southeastern province of Hadramout, a provincial security official told Xinhua on Saturday."Scores of fighters from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP) are preparing to declare the Ghayl Bawazir area...

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Suicide car bombing in Russia's Dagestan injures 11

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew herself up in car near a police building in Russia's Dagestan region on Saturday, injuring 11 policemen and passers-by, Russian media reported.Dagestan, an ethnically mixed, mostly Muslim region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea, has become the most violent province in the North Caucasus, where insurgents say they are fighting to carve...

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May 25., 2013. - ISAF Joint Command Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (May 25) – An Afghan and coalition security force killed eight insurgents during an operation in search of a senior Taliban leader in Achin district, Nangarhar province, today. The leader has planned, coordinated and executed multiple attacks against Afghan government facilities, in addition to Afghan and coalition forces. He maintains operational control...

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