War News for Friday, January 04, 2013

Today in Afghanistan
Insider Attacks in Afghanistan Shape the Late Stages of a War

Reported security incidents
#1: At least 20 militants were killed and 14 others injured when Pakistani army launched an operation in the country’s northwest tribal region of Khyber on Friday morning, local media reported. Local Urdu TV channel Geo quoted military sources as saying that the army jet fighters pounded five hideouts of militants in Tirah Valley area in Khyber, a restive semi-autonomous region bordering Afghanistan.

#2: Up to 10 insurgents have been detained in an operation carried out by Afghan forces and the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in the country’s eastern province of Ghazni, said the ISAF forces on Thursday. “Afghan and coalition forces detained 10 insurgents and located one weapons cache during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours,” the ISAF’s Regional Command-East ( RC-East) said in a statement.

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