War News for Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF soldier from natural causes in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan on Monday, September 24th.

Afghanistan: Oxford graduate officer shot himself day before 30th birthday

Afghan insurgent attacks on NATO forces drop: ISAF –  Insurgent attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan dropped by five percent in the first eight months of this year, but are still running at around 100 a day, the latest official figures show.

Drones in Pakistan traumatise civilians, US report says

Taliban Release Video on Afghan Base Attackers

Reported security incidents
#1: A security man was killed and another sustained injuries in a bomb blast in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday. Officials said that security personnel were returning to their barracks after escorting a convoy, supplying goods to Nato forces in Afghanistan, when an improvised explosive device planted in the bushes along the road exploded. The explosion caused injuries to two security personnel, who were taken to a hospital where one of them identified as Amjad Malikdinkhel succumbed to his injuries.

#2: A US drone strike on Monday killed at least five terrorists in the tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said. The strike targeted a compound in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan. The drone fired two missiles, they said. A security official in Miranshah told AFP that five terrorists had been killed. “The compound was located in Kaderkhail village, some 40 kilometres east of Miranshah, which is the headquarters of the North Waziristan tribal district,” the official added.

#3: Afghan forces and the NATO-led coalition troops have eliminated five militants in operations launched in eastern Afghan provinces within a 24-hour period, the coalition forces said in a statement on Tuesday. “Afghan and coalition forces killed five insurgents, detained one, located two weapons caches and cleared seven improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours,” coalition’s Regional Command-East (RC-E) said in the statement. The operations were launched in eastern Logar, Laghman, Ghazni, Khost, Paktia and Nangarhar provinces.

#4: The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on Monday defused a bomb in Badhber area of Peshawar District, averting a terror bid near a police checkpost. According to details, miscreants planted a bomb in a handcart weighing 30 kilogrammes, however, was defused by BDS near the Sheikhan checkpost.

#5: An explosion rocked capital Kabul on Monday. The incident took place in Dasht-e-Barchi area at western part of capital Kabul. According to preliminary reports the incident took place after an explosive (hand grenade) was thrown at Naqash stop near a market in Dasht-e-Barchi area. At least six people have reportedly been injured following the incident.

MoD: Captain James Anthony Townley