The Taliban killed three ISAF troops in the south and a member of the Marjah peace council in Helmand. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters and commanders in Uruzgan, Kandahar, Logar, Kunduz, and Khost.
One of the commanders was the district leader and personally led assaults on US combat outposts in the area.
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The Taliban killed seven policemen and an ISAF soldier in the south and east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, Haqqani Network, and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fighters and commanders in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Paktia, Wardak, Logar, and Takhar. An ISAF helicopter crashed in Kapisa; Hizb-i-Islami claimed it shot the helo down.
The latest raid targeted an IMU “facilitator and explosives expert” in the northern province of Takhar.
Special operations teams captured the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan’s top leader for Afghanistan during a raid in Kunduz. Security forces captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters and commanders in Kandahar, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Logar, Nangarhar, Badghis, and Faryab. The Taliban killed five border policemen in Kandahar and an ISAF soldier in the east, and […]
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The IMU ‘s senior leader in Afghanistan served as “a key conduit between the senior IMU leadership in Pakistan and senior Taliban leadership in Afghanistan.” He escaped from a Pakistani jail in 2010.
More than 300 Taliban fighters attacked an outpost in Dir from across the border in Kunar province. The Taliban reportedly beheaded five of the Pakistani troops.
The targeted compound is “associated with Pakistan-based al Qaeda leadership.”
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The Taliban killed three policemen in Nangarhar and a French soldier in Kapisa. Special operations teams captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network fighters and commanders in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and Logar.
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Special operations forces killed 17 Taliban and foreign fighters during a raid in Kunar that targeted an al Qaeda commander. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters in Zabul, Khost, Paktia, and Wardak. Afghan officials said the suicide bomber who penetrated the Ministry of Defense was not an Afghan soldier. The Taliban killed an […]
The al Qaeda leader “commands and facilitates insurgents throughout the province and border region, directing weapons acquisition, movement, employment of fighters and equipment to Kunar for attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces.”
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The Italian government announced the deportation of a former Gitmo detainee to Tunisia. Adel Ben Mabrouk had been convicted of terrorism-related charges, but his sentence was commuted to time served because of his eight-year-long detention at Gitmo. Mabrouk went to Afghanistan to train and fight in early 2001 and was part of an al Qaeda cell that plotted to blow up Milan’s Gothic cathedral.
Coalition forces killed a Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander in an airstrike in Baghlan. Security forces captured Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, and Logar. Senators demanded the defense minister resign after a suicide bomber penetrated the ministry.
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Mullah Abdul Fatah Haqqani commanded and controlled facilitation networks for “foreign fighters” in Baghlan.