War News for Saturday, November 02, 2013

Pakistan on high alert after Taliban leader killed by US drone strike

US-led soldier dies in eastern Afghanistan: ISAF

How the Pakistani Taliban Became a Deadly Force

Reported security incidents
#1: Local residents told AFP that dozens of tribesmen and militants had opened fire on a US drone which was flying low in the same area where the Taliban chief was killed. “Tribesmen and militants were firing with light and heavy guns for an hour,” Tariq Khan, a shopkeeper in Miranshah told AFP.

#2: Afghan police backed by the army have killed 17 Taliban fighters during series of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here on Saturday. According to the statement, the operations were carried out in Ghor, Farah, Herat, Paktiya, Khost, Maidan Wardak, Uruzgan, Zabul, Kandahar, Balkh, Parwan and Nangarhar provinces

#3: According to reports, a suicide bomber was shot dead by Afghan security forces in eastern Khost province of Afghanistan on Saturday morning.