Mar. 31., 2013. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition Forces found and safely cleared eleven improvised explosive devices, detained one suspected insurgent and killed 15 insurgents during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, March 30.

Ghanzi province
Afghan National Security Forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Qarah Bagh district.

Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition Forces killed 15 insurgents during operations in Ghanzi. The insurgents were conducting illegal checkpoints and staging for an ambush.

Lagham province
Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition Forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Mehtar Lam district.

Logar province
Coalition Forces detained one suspected insurgent during operations in the Pul-E-Alam district. The suspected insurgent was transferred to a base for questioning.

Afghan National Security Forces found and safely cleared three IEDs during operations in the Muhammad Aghah district.

Paktika province
Afghan National Security Forces found and safely cleared five IEDs during operations in the Dila Wa Khosha district.

Wardak province
Afghan National Security Forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Sayyidabad district.

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Afghan Commander Says 13 Foreign Militants Killed

KANDAHAR -- An Afghan military commander claims to have killed 13 Pakistani and Arab militants during an ongoing military sweep in Ghazni province.

General Daud Wafadar, commander of Afghan National Army forces in Ghazni, told REF/RL Radio Mashaal on April 25 that the militants were killed in a joint Afghan-NATO operation that began one day earlier.

Wafadar said the operation targeted the Qarabagh district of Ghazni, which is partly controlled by Afghan Taliban fighters.

Afghan troops are conducting the ground operations with air support from NATO.

Wafadar says a key militant leader, Qari Nusrat, also has been captured by Afghan government troops.

Authorities in Ghanzi recently warned of possible infiltrations by Arab, Pakistani, and Chechen militants.

from RFE/RL

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Taliban local leader killed in E Afghanistan

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- An Afghan Taliban local leader was killed in a search operation in the country's eastern province of Ghazni, a provincial security official said on Tuesday.

"Based on intelligence, a special unite of Afghan Directorate of Security (NDS) launched a search operation to capture a Taliban local leader in Gilan district of Ghazni province Monday night," head of provincial department of NDS, Amir Shah Sadat, told reporters in provincial capital of Ghanzi city.

He said upon arrival of the forces in a compound in Autala area of Gilan district, a gunfight was broke out leaving the Talian leader namely Malawi Noor Ahmad dead.

He said two other insurgents were also killed in the incident, adding that no civilian or NDS personnel were injured in the raid in the province 125 km south of capital city of Kabul.

He said the deceased insurgent leader was operating in Gilan district and surrounding areas and has been involved in carrying out several attacks against security forces over the past few years.

The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant since the militant group announced to launch a rebel offensive from May 2011 against Afghan and NATO-led troops stationed in Afghanistan.

The Taliban militants have not to make comments yet.



(today morning ISAF Op update is here)

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