Afghanistan
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Falling in 2012, UN Says
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Falling in 2012, UN Says
ISAF confirmed it killed Sakhr al Taifi, a Saudi who served as al Qaeda’s second in command in Afghanistan, in Sunday’s airstrike in Kunar. The Taliban killed four policemen and a former Taliban commander who had become a police chief in Baghlan, and five soldiers in separate attacks. Two Taliban fighters were killed when their […]
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Sakhr al Taifi, a senior leader from Saudi Arabia who communicated with top al Qaeda leaders based in Pakistan, was killed in yesterday’s airstrike in Kunar.
Security forces killed 21 Taliban fighters in operations and targeted two al Qaeda leaders in Kunar. The Taliban killed four policemen in Baghlan and an ISAF soldier in the south. Two ISAF soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in the east; another helicopter crashed in the east, but no casualties were reported.
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The Taliban killed seven ISAF soldiers, an Afghan Army commander, and two civilians in separate attacks in the south and east. Afghan officials said eight civilians, including six children, were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Paktia.
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Residents of Ghazni killed 11 Taliban fighters in a local uprising. Five Taliban fighters and a civilian were killed in fighting in Helmand. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand.
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The Taliban killed nine civilians in IED attacks in Helmand and Ghazni, two policemen in Uruzgan, and an ISAF soldier in the east. Security forces killed eight Afghan soldiers in Nangarhar.
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