War News for Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Troops from Hungary, Iceland, Ireland and Italy leaves Afghanistan

Reported security incidents
#1: The gunfight erupted overnight at a checkpost of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Shireendara area of Orakzai district, one of Pakistan’s seven semi-autonomous tribal regions on the Afghan border. “More than 50 militants attacked the checkpost. Two soldiers embraced shahadat [martrydom] while 15 terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire,” a senior security official told AFP. He said six soldiers also sustained injuries in the attack, adding that the militants fled after the FC troops retaliated.

#2: Elsewhere, one soldier was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their vehicle in the northwestern town of Bannu on Tuesday, a security official said.

#3: Separately, a bomb planted on a roadside in restive Bajaur tribal district’s Chargoo village bordering Afghanistan killed two tribal security force personnel and wounded three others, local government official Sohail Khan told AFP.

#4: At least 10 militants were killed overnight after Afghan army helicopters carried out an airstrike in Kunduz province, an official said on Tuesday.

#5: At least three security personnel who were guarding a polio vaccination team were killed today in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region.

#6: Jalalabad capital of Nangarhar province came under rocket attack this morning, leaving at least one civilian dead and three others injured.

#7: At least 19 Taliban militants were killed and 11 others were injured following military operations in the past 24 hours.