Sunday, May 26, 2013

May 26., 2013. - ISAF Joint Command Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani high-profile attack facilitator and one other insurgent during an operation in Pul-e ‘Alam district, Logar province, May 26.

The facilitator is responsible for coordinating weapons, improvised explosive devices and suicide attackers for use in attacks targeting Afghan and coalition forces. He also houses transient Taliban commanders in his residence when they pass through his area of operations.

The security force also seized 25 kilograms of bomb-making material as a result of the operation.

In other International Security Assistance Force news throughout Afghanistan:

South

An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban facilitator and one other insurgent during an operation in Kandahar City, Kandahar province, May 26. The facilitator provides weapons and military equipment for multiple insurgent groups active in the Arghandab River Valley and Kandahar City. He also coordinates suicide bombing operations against Afghan and coalition forces.

East

ANA Special Forces, Afghan Local Police, and coalition forces, killed 22 insurgents after the joint force was engaged by insurgents with heavy enemy fire near Sujja Ahmand village, Gelan district, Ghazni province, May 25. The forces were in the area to discuss the construction of future ALP checkpoints with the local populace when the incident took place. An Afghan quick reaction force joined the fight shortly after ALP radioed the District Operations Coordination Center for reinforcements. Following the engagement, Afghan Nation Security Forces recovered five motorcycles, two PKMs with more than 1600 rounds of ammunition, two RPG launchers with 14 RPG rounds and several rifles.

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In Several Joint Clearance Operations, 57 Armed Taliban Killed (May 26.2013.)

Publish Date: May 26, 2013
Counterterrorism:
In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several joint clearance operations with the cooperation of Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces to clean some of the areas from terrorists and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan.

The operations were conducted in Nangarhar, Kapisa, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Logar, Ghazni and Paktiya provinces, as a result 57 armed Taliban were killed, 26 wounded and seven other armed Taliban were arrested by Afghan National Security Forces.

Also, during these operations, Afghan National Police discovered and defused some amount of light and heavy rounds ammunition and 1500 kilos of ammonium nitrate.

During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused six different types of mines placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Kunar, Laghman, Maidan Wardak, Herat and Nimroz provinces.
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Mother, son killed in Paktika rocket attack

Districts of Paktika Province
Districts of Paktika Province (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
KABUL (PAN): A mother and her four-year-old son were killed when a Taliban-fired rocket hit their home in the Zherook district of southeastern Paktika province, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place in the Shimi village on Saturday evening, provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Daulat Khan Zadran, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

Two rooms of the house located near the district headquarters were damaged in the attack, he said.

A resident said a four-year-old child was killed and her mother who sustained serious injuries died of her wounds at a hospital.

Meanwhile, The Ministry of Defence said two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed and 11 others were wounded over the past 24 hours.

A ministry statement said the two soldiers were killed in Herat and Helmand provinces and the 11 were wounded in Kandahar, Paktika, Zabul and Helmand.

The statement gave no further details.

from Pajhwok
By Pajhwok Report May 26, 2013 - 14:13   

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3 killed, 30 wounded in twin bombings in Iraq's Mosul

BAGHDAD, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers and a policeman were killed and 30 others wounded in two explosions that co-ordinately went off in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Sunday, a local police source said.
The first blast occurred in the morning inside an under- construction house in the town of Shora, some 40 km south of Mosul, without causing any casualties, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

As Iraqi security forces rushed to the scene of the blast, another car bomb went off, killing two soldiers and a policeman and injuring 30 people, he said.

Nine soldiers and 14 policemen were among the wounded, while the rest of the wounded were civilians, including four children, the source said, adding that the blast also destroyed several military vehicles and three nearby houses.

The attackers apparently followed the old tactic which depends on creating an initial explosion to attract security forces and people, then they set off another blast to get heavier casualties, he said.

Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, has long been a hot bed for insurgency and ethnic and sectarian violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

from XINHUA2013-05-26 17:35:06

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Rockets Land in Hezbollah Stronghold in Beirut

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, gives a televised speech from an unknown location, May 25, 2013
Lebanese security officials say two rockets have hit a Beirut neighborhood that is a stronghold of Hezbollah militants.

Reports say the rockets landed in the southern part of the Lebanese capital Sunday, wounding at least three people. It was not clear who was responsible for firing them.

The rocket attacks came a day after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked.

Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday that Hezbollah is fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists.  It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah's fighting presence in Syria.

The speech was given as Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters carried out the heaviest barrage of gunfire in a week-long battle to re-take the strategic town of Qusair from rebel fighters.

from VOA News
May 26, 2013

A policeman inspects damaged cars after two rockets hit houses and parked cars in Beirut suburbs May 26, 2013 (Reuters / Mohammed Azakir)
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May 26., 2013. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security and coalition forces killed 19 insurgents, discovered two weapons caches and found and safely cleared 11 improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, May 25.

Ghazni province
Afghan National Security and coalition forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Andar district.

Afghan National Security and coalition forces killed 16 insurgents during operations in the Gelan district.

Kapisa province
Afghan National Security Forces discovered one weapons cache containing 20 82 mm mortars during operations in the Tag Ab district.

Laghman province
Afghan National Security and coalition forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Qarghaee district.

Logar province
Afghan National Security and coalition forces killed three insurgents and found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Baraki Barak district.

Afghan National Security Forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Pul-e Alam district.

Nangarhar province
Afghan National Security Forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Bati Kot district.

Paktika province
Afghan National Security and coalition forces discovered one weapons cache containing 18 82 mm mortars during operations in the Sar Hawza district.

Afghan National Security Forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Yahya Khel district.

Paktya province
Afghan National Security and coalition forces found and safely cleared one IED during operations in the Gardez district.

Wardak Province
Afghan National Security and coalition forces found and safely cleared four IEDs during operations in the Sayed Abad district.

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Al-Qaida militants take over village in southeast Yemen

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ADEN, Yemen, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of fighters of the Yemen- based al-Qaida offshoot took control of a small village in the southeastern province of Hadramout, a provincial security official told Xinhua on Saturday.
"Scores of fighters from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula ( AQAP) are preparing to declare the Ghayl Bawazir area near the port city of Mukalla, the provincial capital, as an emirate of their newest Islamic state," the local security official said on condition of anonymity, adding that "the al-Qaida fighters armed with assault rifles are stationed at several checkpoints throughout the area."

A local resident told Xinhua anonymously that "masked al-Qaida militants seized the Ghayl Bawazir area and said they were going to establish an Islamic caliphate. People were very scared."

The country's the interior ministry said in a brief statement posted on its web page "the terrorist presence of al-Qaida in Hadramout will suffer the same fate as that in Abyan."

In January 2009, al-Qaida affiliates in Saudi Arabia and Yemen officially merged and formed the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

The group, mainly entrenching itself in Yemen's southern provinces of Abyan and Shabwa, is on the terrorist list of the United States, which considers it as an increasing threat to its national security.

The AQAP underscores the challenges faced by Yemen's new President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi who won support from major Yemeni political forces, the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Hadi is tasked with restoring security and stability to Yemen and putting an end to growing influence of al-Qaida that threatens daily oil shipping routes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

from XINHUA
2013-05-25 17:45:42

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Suicide car bombing in Russia's Dagestan injures 11

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew herself up in car near a police building in Russia's Dagestan region on Saturday, injuring 11 policemen and passers-by, Russian media reported.

Dagestan, an ethnically mixed, mostly Muslim region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea, has become the most violent province in the North Caucasus, where insurgents say they are fighting to carve out an Islamic state out of southern Russia.

The bomb was detonated after police stopped the car to check the driver's documents, some 100 metres from the regional police ministry in the centre of Makhachkala, the regional capital.

Police sources told local media the only person killed was the bomber, whom they identified as the former wife of two militants. It is not unusual for women to carry out suicide bombings in the region. They are often the widows of militants.

Two policemen injured in the blast were in a critical condition, police said, with nine other people requiring hospital treatment.

There has been a surge in violence in the region in recent weeks. The latest attack comes days after two car bombs in Makhachkala killed four people and injured dozens more on Monday.

At least 405 people were killed in Dagestan in violence linked to the insurgency last year, according to the Caucasian Knot website, which tracks developments in the region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered law enforcement authorities to ensure insurgents do not attack the 2014 Winter Olympics next February in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, which is close to the North Caucasus.

from REUTERS
MOSCOW | Sat May 25, 2013 12:39pm BST
(Reporting by Jason Bush; Editing by Alison Williams)

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May 25., 2013. - ISAF Joint Command Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (May 25) – An Afghan and coalition security force killed eight insurgents during an operation in search of a senior Taliban leader in Achin district, Nangarhar province, today.

The leader has planned, coordinated and executed multiple attacks against Afghan government facilities, in addition to Afghan and coalition forces. He maintains operational control over numerous insurgent groups in the local area, and relays operational guidance from senior Taliban leadership to his fighters.

In other International Security Assistance Force news throughout Afghanistan:

North

Afghan Local Police killed one Taliban insurgent and wounded two others while defending the Haji Safraz checkpoint in Archi district, Kunduz province, yesterday. The ALP returned fire after an unknown number of Taliban fighters attacked the checkpoint with small arms fire. Following the engagement ALP transferred custody of the dead and wounded insurgents into the custody of the Afghan Uniformed Police.

South

An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban facilitator and two other insurgents during an operation in Arghandab district, Kandahar province, today. The facilitator is responsible for procuring improvised explosive devices and distributing them to multiple insurgent groups throughout Arghandab and Dand districts. He is also involved in indirect fire attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. The security force also seized a handgun as a result of the operation.

Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the arrest of a Taliban leader during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Thursday. The leader is responsible for directing and executing improvised explosive device and small arms attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in the local area. He also procures and distributes IED-making material to other insurgents and serves as an intelligence operative for senior Taliban leadership.

Afghan National Army Special Forces of the 8th Special Operations Kandak, Afghan Local Police, and Afghan Uniformed Police killed one insurgent while responding to an ambush targeting the Mya Neshin district Chief of Police, Abdul Satar, in Mya Neshin district, Kandahar province, yesterday. The security force, which was providing over-watch for a local shura, reacted when an unknown number of insurgents began to attack the DCoP as he was departing Kushany Karez Kalay village.

East

An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani high-profile attack facilitator and one other insurgent during an operation in Gardez district, Paktiya province, today. The facilitator has been involved in multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in Gardez district and Kabul. He acquires weapons and military equipment and distributes them to local insurgent groups. At the time of this arrest, he was actively planning an attack involving multiple suicide bombers.

An Afghan and coalition security force killed two insurgents and wounded two others during an operation in search of a Haqqani affiliated Taliban leader in Muhammad Aghah district, Logar province, yesterday. The leader is involved in planning, facilitating and executing attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. He purchases and transfers explosives, weapons and military equipment to Taliban and Haqqani cells for use in insurgent operations.

Provincial Response Company Ghazni, enabled by coalition forces, discovered a large cache of Potassium Chlorate, while conducting a cordon and search operation in Dey Yak district, Ghazni province, yesterday. The cache consisted of twenty 50 kg bags of Potassium Chlorate totaling 1000 kilograms. All seized items were destroyed on location.

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