War News for Monday, September 06, 2010

The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF soldier from an IED attack in the Nad 'Ali district, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Sunday, September 5th. Here's NATO"S release.

The British MoD is reporting the death of another ISAF soldier at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England on Sunday, September 5th. He was wounded from an IED attack in the Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Tuesday, August 24th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, September 4th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, September 5th. This is likely the release for what news reports a Georgian soldier died in an IED attack which wounded another soldier.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, September 5th.


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Gunmen killed a senior Iraqi officer in western Baghdad early on Monday, as they opened fire on a brigadier general while he was driving his car in al-Ameriya.

#2: In western Baghdad's Harthiya neighborhood, gunmen using silencers wounded a senior Ministry of Agriculture employee as he was leaving his home in al-Harthiya neighborhood.

#3: A double bombing in western Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood Monday wounded at least 15 Iraqis. First, a roadside bomb targeting civilians detonated, which was followed by a second blast when security forces responded to the scene. Six Iraqi soldiers, four policemen and five civilians were wounded.

#4: In southern Baghdad's Dora district, a roadside bomb hit a convoy of a private Iraqi security company, wounding at least two civilian bystanders and damaging one vehicle.

#5: Gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint in western Baghdad, wounding a policeman, while a bomb attached to a civilian vehicle wounded its two occupants.


Diyala Prv:
#1: A chieftain and two of his guards were all wounded on Monday when a roadside bomb went off in the al-Saadiya district, northeastern Diala province. “The blast took place on the major road in the al-Saadiya, 155 km northeast of Baaquba city,” a local source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Hilla:
#1: Two young brothers were killed in a landmine explosion in southern Iraq on Monday, in what police said appeared to be an accident. The incident, which took place in Hilla, some 100 kilometres south of the capital Baghdad.


Samarra:
#1: Five Iraqi businessmen who were involved in building a police station and a youth centre north of Baghdad were killed in a gun and knife attack overnight, police and medical officials said on Monday. The murders occurred in the al-Shouhada neighbourhood of Samarra, 110 kilometres (68 miles) north of the capital, a lieutenant colonel, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP. Two other men were wounded, he said. Doctor Khalid al-Bazi at Samarra city hospital said five bodies had been received and that three of the victims been shot to death and the other two shot and stabbed.


Mosul:
#1: Two mortar shells landed on a public street and wounded a civilian in northern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: At least 17 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said. "There were nine policemen among the dead," senior police official Iftikhar Ahmad told AFP by telephone after the attack on Lakki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, not far from tribal areas that are a stronghold of the Taliban. Police said 20 policemen were among those wounded by the blast which destroyed the police station and damaged a nearby administrative building.

News of the Day for Sunday, September 5, 2010

Reported Security Incidents

Baghdad

8 dead, 29 injured in complex attack on headquarters of Iraqi Army's 11th Division and an attached military recruitment center, according to AP. (This is the same location where 61 applicants for the army were killed in mid-August.) In this account, a car bomb first killed 2 people, then gunmen tried to shoot their way into the building, killing 6 more, with 5 soldiers among the dead. Other accounts say there was a second explosion, caused by a suicide bomber among the attackers. There may also have been a sniper in the area, and a second suicide bomber whose device failed to fully detonate. KUNA now reports that there were in fact 12 fatalities including the attackers.

Sticky bomb kills 1, injures 2 in Dora.

Roadside bomb injures 2 civilians in al-Kamaliya, eastern Baghdad.

Civilian killed, 7 injured by IEDs on al-Madaris street, al-Hurriya, late Saturday. This is apparently the same incident Reuters reports as targeting an army patrol.

Other News of the Day

The Iraqi National Alliance proposes VP Adel Abdul-Mahdi to replace Nuri al-Maliki as PM of a Shiite coalition government. The INA includes the Sadrists, who are particularly opposed to Maliki.

Gen. Richard Dannatt, former head of the British army, says in a memoir that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did not adequately fund the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suppose that's what the generals will always say. -- C

Afghanistan Update

British soldier from The Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland killed by an RPG in Helmand Province.

U.S. and Afghan governments to jointly bail out Kabul Bank, which is in danger of collapse as depositors continue to line up to withdraw their funds. The bank is partly owned by President Hamid Karzai's brother Mahmoud and its trouble stem in part from loans to allies of the president.

A Japanese journalist abducted 5 months ago, apparently by Taliban, is released. The journalist, Kosuke Tsuneoka, had converted to Islam in 2000 and that was a factor in his release, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tells Reuters the Taliban will disrupt the Sept. 18 parliamentary elections. This Reuters article also features a broad discussion of the security situation leading up to the election, and problems of electoral integrity.

The head of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission, Fazel Ahmad Manawi, says that if the security situation continues to deteriorate, the IEC will choose unspecified "other options" for polling. I am not sure what this could mean. 938 polling stations are currently planned not to open due to security threats. The Electoral Complaints Commission, meanwhile, asserts that 2 ministers and a governor are using government facilities on behalf of favored candidates.

Karzai to form a "High Council of Peace to lead peace talks with the Taliban. He will announce membership after Eid al-Fitr.

Quote of the Day

The Americans, beginning 1991, bombed for 12 years, with one excuse or another; then invaded, then occupied, overthrew the government, killed wantonly, tortured ... the people of that unhappy land have lost everything — their homes, their schools, their electricity, their clean water, their environment, their neighborhoods, their mosques, their archaeology, their jobs, their careers, their professionals, their state-run enterprises, their physical health, their mental health, their health care, their welfare state, their women's rights, their religious tolerance, their safety, their security, their children, their parents, their past, their present, their future, their lives ... More than half the population either dead, wounded, traumatized, in prison, internally displaced, or in foreign exile ... The air, soil, water, blood and genes drenched with depleted uranium ... the most awful birth defects ... unexploded cluster bombs lie in wait for children to pick them up ... an army of young Islamic men went to Iraq to fight the American invaders; they left the country more militant, hardened by war, to spread across the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia ... a river of blood runs alongside the Euphrates and Tigris ... through a country that may never be put back together again.

William Blum

War News for Saturday, September 04, 2010

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Friday, September 3rd.


British guns used against Nato forces in Afghanistan

Floods delaying military operation in N Waziristan: Gates

Turkish, US military chiefs meet amid debates on Iraq pullout demand

Defense Secretary Offers Cautious Views on Wars

U.S. to temper stance on Afghan corruption


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Three persons were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in western Baghdad city on Saturday, according to a local security source. “Three, including two policemen, were wounded when a roadside IED went off near a police patrol, close to the Ali Walie Allah Mosque in al-Jihad neighborhood, southwestern Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Tarimiya:
#1: “An IED went off near a joint checkpoint of Iraqi policemen and pro-government sahwa fighters in al-Tarimiya area, northern Baghdad, leaving one policeman, two sahwa fighter and four civilians near the blast site wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The explosion also left two vehicles destroyed and caused other material losses,” he added.


Abu Ghraib:
#1: Another well-placed source said two Iraqi army soldiers were wounded in an IED blast that targeted an Iraqi army patrol near Sheikh Dari mosque in the area of Abu Ghraib, western Baghdad. “The attack left damage to a number of patrol vehicles,” he said, not giving more details about the nature of the two soldiers’ injuries.


Mosul:
#1: A policeman was killed in a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED) that targeted a patrol stationed near a mosque in southwestern Mosul city on Friday, a local police source said. “An IED blast targeted a police patrol near a mosque in al-Ma’moun neighborhood, southwestern Mosul, coinciding with the Friday congregational prayers,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: Two Iraqi army personnel were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in western Mosul city on Friday, a local security source in Ninewa said. “An IED blast went off near an Iraqi army patrol in al-Islah al-Zirai’e neighborhood, western Mosul, leaving an officer in the rank of captain and a solider wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#3: A roadside bomb wounded an Iraqi soldier in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A suicide bomber perched on the back of a motorcycle killed five Afghan policemen and one civilian in the increasingly violent northern province of Kunduz on Saturday. Five other people were injured in the midday attack in the provincial capital, also called Kunduz, provincial police chief Abdul-Razaq Yaqoubi said.

#2: Also Saturday, NATO announced the capture of a Taliban commander and the killing of six insurgents in a raid on a rebel hide-out in the northern province of Takhar. NATO said a joint Afghan-NATO force was fired on as it approached a compound Friday where the Taliban commander was hiding. The force returned fire with the backing of coalition aircraft, then evacuated the compound and detained the commander and one of his assistants, it said.


DoD: Lance Cpl. Joshua T. Twigg

DoD: Staff Sgt. Vinson B. Adkinson III

DoD: Sgt. Raymond C. Alcaraz

DoD: Pfc. Matthew E. George

DoD: Pfc. James A. Page

War News for Friday, September 03, 2010

Corruption probe ruffles US-Afghan relations

Poland wants to start pulling troops out of Afghanistan


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: “A bomb, stuck to the car of Colonel Mohammad Riyadh, went off late Thursday (Sept. 2) in al-Amal al-Shaabi street in al-Ameriya region, western Baghdad, killing his brother and wounding him, who was rushed to al-Yarmouk hospital for treatment,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: “An explosive charge went off targeting an army vehicle patrol in al-Khadraa neighborhood, western Baghdad, injuring three soldiers and damaging the vehicle,” the same source said.

#3: Gunmen shot dead Jameel Shihab Ahmed, head of administrative affairs in the Higher Education Ministry, in Baghdad's western district of Amiriya, police said.


Nomaniya:
#1: A U.S. military vehicle hit a civilian car west of Kut city killing three civilians and wounding one, a local security source said on Thursday. “The accident occurred in central al-Noamaniya district, west of Kut,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Kirkuk:
#1: A member of the Sahwa, or Awakening Councils, was shot dead while staffing a checkpoint outside Kirkuk, located 250 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad. The gunmen drove past the checkpoint late Thursday, fired shots from a moving vehicle, and then fled the scene, a police official said.


Mosul:
#1: Two gunmen shot dead a civilian in a cemetery in western Mosul city on Thursday, according to a local police source in Ninewa. “Two gunmen took a civilian to the Wadi Akkab cemetery in western Mosul and opened fire on him, killing him instantly and escaping to an unknown place,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Police say a roadside bomb has killed a police officer and wounded three others in northwest Pakistan. Police official Shafiullah Khan said the bomb was detonated by remote control Friday as officers patrolled in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where floods have affected millions of people in recent weeks.

#2-3: Explosions killed at least 10 members of Pakistan's minority religious communities on Friday, driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding. A blast at a Shiite procession killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Quetta at a rally calling for solidarity with Palestinians. Qazi Abdul Wahid, a senior police official, said at least 40 people were wounded. Some Shiite youths fired shots in the air shortly after the blast, and Wahid said officers were trying to control the situation. Earlier in the day, a suicide attack on a mosque belonging to the minority Ahmadi sect killed at least one person and wounded several others in the northwest Pakistani town of Mardan.

#3: An Afghan parliamentary candidate and a civilian were wounded in a grenade attack at the governor's compound in southeastern Ghazni city on Thursday, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said


DoD: Lance Cpl. Christopher B. Rodgers

DoD: 2nd Lt. Mark A. Noziska

DoD: Staff Sgt. Casey J. Grochowiak

War News for Thursday, September 02, 2010

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, August 31st.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, September 1st.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, September 2nd.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, September 2nd.


Near Kandahar, the Prize Is an Empty Town


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: One civilian was killed and three others were wounded in a sticky bomb explosion in southeastern Baghdad, a security source said on Wednesday. “A bomb, stuck to a civilian car, went off in al-Baladiyat region, southeastern Baghdad, killing an employee, injuring three others and damaging a number of nearby cars,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: Two civilians were wounded on Wednesday in an improvised explosive device explosion in eastern Baghdad, according to a security source. “The bomb exploded near al-Awali marketplace in al-Dakhel neighborhood in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#3: A policeman was killed and two others were wounded by when an adhesive bomb stuck to the policeman's car detonated in Kadhemiyah neighborhood in northwest Baghdad around 7:30 a.m.


Diyala Prv:
#1: Two policemen were killed on Wednesday in a bomb blast in northeast of Baaquba, director of al-Saadiya district said. “An explosive charge went off on Wednesday afternoon on the main street in al-Saadiya district, in Khanaqin, northeast of Baaquba, targeting a police vehicle patrol, killing two policemen,” Ahmad al-Zarkoushi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Hilla:
#1: One Iraqi soldier was killed and another was injured while trying to defuse a roadside bomb in the city of al-Hilla Thursday, security sources said. The bomb exploded while the soldiers were attempting to defuse it. The incident took place in the area of Jarf al-Saghr in al-Hilla, some 100 kilometres south of Baghdad.


Amarra:
#1: The headquarters of the Iraqi army 10th division in the northwest of Amara city was hit with five Katyusha rockets, without causing any casualties. “The headquarters, 10 km northwest of Amara city, was hit with the rockets late yesterday night,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Thursday. He explained that the rockets were launched from an area around 5 km south of Amara.


Basra:
#1: Unknown people threw an active grenade on the house of the deputy dean of the fine arts school in Basra city, causing no casualties. “The attack occurred late yesterday night in al-Jibliya area of Basra,” a local security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Thursday.


Tuz Khurmato:
#1: Gunmen attacked a government-backed Sunni militia checkpoint and shot dead one member in Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Baiji:
#1: Gunmen attacked a government-backed Sunni militia checkpoint late on Wednesday, killing two members and wounding five others in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Mosul:
#1: Gunmen kidnapped and killed a taxi driver in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The attackers dumped the driver's body in a cemetry.

#2: A roadside bomb wounded an Iraqi soldier when it exploded near his patrol in western Mosul, police said.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Gunmen sprayed municipal officer Farouq al-Gertani's car with bullets, wounding him and killing two of his bodyguards, including his brother, near the town of al-Mashahda, north of Baghdad, police said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Coalition troops in southeastern Afghanistan fought off insurgents after a failed assault on a combat outpost on Thursday. The incident occurred in the Bermel district of Paktika province after a failed attack. The fighting led to the deaths of at least 20 insurgents. Insurgents fired small arms and used indirect fire directed against Combat Outpost Margah. Soldiers shot back with mortars and small arms fire and called for air support. The aircraft, from Task Force Viper, killed the insurgents in two separate passes over the area.

#2: An apparent air strike by foreign forces killed 10 election campaign workers in Afghanistan's north on Thursday, a government spokesman said, and NATO-led forces said they were investigating the incident. Thursday's attack happened in the Rostaq district of Takhar, a relatively peaceful province in the north near Tajikistan, said a spokesman for the provincial governor, unlike areas in the south and east where the resurgent Taliban are mostly active. Spokesman Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi said the candidate, Abdul Wahid, and some of his supporters were wounded in the air strike, which Tawhidi said included two helicopters and two fixed-wing aircraft. Tawhidi initially said six people were killed but later said the toll had risen to 10. He said he had been told of the strikes by security officials.

#3: Thousands of Shiite Muslims, thumping their chests and crying, mourned Thursday at funeral prayers for victims of a triple bombing that heaped more tragedy on Pakistan, which is already struggling to cope with devastating floods. The blasts that targeted a Shiite ceremony late Wednesday in this eastern city were the first major attacks since flood waters tore through the country over the past month, destroying or damaging more than one million homes and prompting a major international relief effort that continues to struggle with the scale of the destruction. At least 35 people were killed and 250 wounded in the attacks on a street procession marking the death anniversary of caliph Ali, one of Shiite Islam's most respected holy men. Two of the blasts were apparently suicide bombs.

#4: Two more NATO tankers were attacked in two separate incidents in Mastung and Khuzdar on Wednesday. According to sources, a tanker, carrying logistic support for NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan, was heading towards Kandahar from Karachi when some unidentified armed men opened fired on it on the national highway in Mastung. Resultantly, the driver received bullet wounds and the assailants managed to escape from the scene. Separately in Wadh, unidentified men intercepted a NATO tanker and took the driver and the cleaner hostage at gunpoint. The attackers sprinkled petrol on the tanker and set it on fire.

#5: ISAF troops killed two insurgents in an attack in southeastern Paktika province on Wednesday, the coalition said.

#6: ISAF forces killed several insurgents in air strikes in southern Uruzgan province on Wednesday, ISAF said.

#7: A roadside bomb killed four members of a pro-government militia in northern Kunduz province, the provincial police chief said.


DoD: Capt. Dale A Goetz

DoD: Staff Sgt. Jesse Infante

DoD: Staff Sgt. Kevin J. Kessler

DoD: Staff Sgt. Matthew J. West

DoD: Pfc. Chad D. Clements

DoD: Sgt. Joseph A. Bovia

DoD: Lance Cpl. Cody A. Roberts

War News for Wednesday, September 01, 2010

The French MoD is reporting the death of a French ISAF soldier in a vehicle accident in the Uzbeen valley, eastern Afghanistan on Monday, August 30th. Two additional soldiers were injured in the incident.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier during an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, August 31st.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier during an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, September 1st.


3 Oxfam workers killed in northeastern Afghanistan


Reported security incidents

Diyala Prv:
#1: A U.S. drone went down on Wednesday in a village northeast of Baaquba city, said a local security source. “The drone went down in al-Weesi village of the al-Miqdadiya district, 45 km northeast of Baaquba,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He explained that the drone was totally destroyed.

#2: A roadside bomb went off on Wednesday targeting the vehicle of a Kurdish official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the al-Saadiya district, wounding one of his guards, said a local security source stressing that Iraqi forces arrested the bombers. “The blast occurred at the major road of Hay al-Taakhi village,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He explained that the Kurdish official was not harmed, but his vehicle was devastated and his guard was wounded.


Mussayab:
#1: Two civilians were wounded Tuesday in a bomb blast in northern Babel, a police source said. “A bomb, stuck to a civilian car, went off in al-Khedr region in al-Musayab district, north of Hilla, injuring the driver and another civilian, and damaging the car,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Nassiriya:
#1: One U.S. army vehicle was damaged on Tuesday when a bomb exploded targeting a U.S. convoy in southern Nassiriya, according to the media spokesman of the U.S. army. “A logistic support convoy was attacked early Tuesday (Aug. 31) by a bomb blast on the highway between Thi-Qar and Basra in southern Nassiriya,” Major Alan Brown told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The explosion damaged one of the convoy’s vehicles,” he added, without giving further details.


Tikrit:
#1: Five policemen and one civilian were wounded on Wednesday when a roadside bomb went off near Tikrit city. “The blast targeted a police patrol near the Tikrit Bridge,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Pakistani government air raids have killed up to 45 militants, their family members and other civilians with no ties to the fighters, officials said on Wednesday. Three strikes on Tuesday night targeted Pakistani Taliban militants in one of their strongholds in the Tirah Valley in the northwestern Khyber region on the Afghan border. "We have reports that 40 to 45 terrorists were killed," a security official told Reuters. Taliban insurgents often deny official death tolls of militants. "Some of the families were living in the vicinity of these hideouts and they were also among the dead," said the security official. Rehan Khattak, a senior government official in Khyber, said six civilians, including women and children, were killed in one of the strikes and they had nothing to do with militants. "Four people were also wounded. They were members of Kokikhel," Khattak told Reuters, referring to a pro-government Pashtun tribe which dominates Khyber.

#2: A bomb attack Wednesday in Afghanistan's volatile southern city of Kandahar killed the director of the local office responsible for arranging pilgrimages to Islamic holy sites, police said. One other person was killed in the attack on Mohammad Hassan Taimuri and two people were wounded, Kandahar police Chief Sher Mohammed Zazai said. The bomb appeared to be a remote-controlled device concealed on a motorcycle which exploded Wednesday morning just as the director was leaving his office, according to witness Asad Jan Aghra.

#3: An official for religious affairs was killed by a bomb blast as he entered a government building in Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan, provincial police chief Sardar Mohammad Zazai said. Two people were wounded.

#4: Afghan and ISAF forces shot and killed one civilian and wounded another when the pair approached personnel who were conducting a medical evacuation in Marjah in the southern province of Helmand on Tuesday, ISAF said.

#5: Two women were killed when ISAF attacked a Taliban position with ground forces and air strikes after a patrol came under small-arms fire in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province on Tuesday, ISAF said. Two civilians were wounded and one insurgent was killed, ISAF said.

#6: Anti-government militants attacked a convoy of a private security company in Zabul province south of Afghanistan Monday night killing two guards and set on fire over a dozen vehicles, spokesman for provincial government Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar said Tuesday. "The Taliban rebels attacked the convoy of a security company in Shahr-e-Safa district Monday night killing two guards, wounding five and set ablaze 15 vehicles," Rasoulyar told Xinhua. However, he failed to identify the name of the company, saying it escorts logistic convoys of NATO-led troops in the province. He also said that all those killed and injured were Afghans.


DoD: Sgt. Patrick K. Durham

DoD: Spc. Andrew J. Castro

War News for Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The DND/CF is reporting the death of a Canadian soldier at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany on Monday, August 30th. He was wounded from a roadside bombing in the Panjwa’i District, southwest of Kandahar City, Kandahar province, Afghanistan on Sunday, August 22nd.

NATO is reporting the deaths of five ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Monday, August 30th. News reports that a roadside bombing killed five American soldiers in Helmand province.

NATO is reporting the deaths of two additional soldiers in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Monday, August 30th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Monday, August 30th. This will be the Estonian soldier.

NATO is reporting the deaths of three ISAF soldiers from a roadside bombing in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, August 31st.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an IED attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, August 31st.


Restoring Names to Iraq War’s Unknown Casualties

Petraeus Finishes Rules for Afghan Security Transition

Leader Says Iraq Independent as U.S. Ends Combat

Obama speech on Iraq has risks

Civil liberties groups challenge constitutionality of secret U.S. program to target terror suspects for killing

"Non-combat" Iraq troops still get combat pay


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Two mortar rounds slammed into the Green Zone late Sunday. No casualties were reported.


Mosul:
#1: Two brothers were killed and one civilian man was wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in western Mosul city. “The incident occurred last night in the al-Isslah al-Zeraee neighborhood, western Mosul,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Tuesday. He explained that the two brothers work as truck drivers.


Tal Afar:
#1: Army forces killed on Monday a suicide bomber in eastern Talafar, a security source said. “Acting on a tip-off on the presence of a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt in al-Mazraa village in eastern Talafar, a force from the 3rd division of the Iraqi army rushed to the area and killed him,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol near a mosque in central Fallujah, at 11.15 p.m. Monday. The vehicle sustained a direct hit and was destroyed and all five policemen inside it were critically injured.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A rocket fired by militants slammed close to the office of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Kandahar province south of Afghanistan, injuring a guard, spokesman for provincial administration Zalmai Ayubi said Tuesday. "The rocket was fired at 10:00 p.m. Monday night. As a result, one Afghan guard of the UNAMA compound was injured," Zalmai Ayubi told Xinhua.

#2: Suspected Islamist militants attacked an army intelligence office Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, setting off a gunbattle that paralyzed parts of the city. Captured militant suspects were being questioned in the office at the time of the attack, two local police officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. It was not clear, though, if the attack was tied to the questioning. Bashir Bilour, a senior minister in the province, said the shooting began when militants tried to enter the building, but security forces fended off the attack. "They have been surrounded and so far there are no casualties," he told reporters. The area around the office was sealed off soon after the attack, which began about 6 a.m. Sporadic gunfire could still be heard more than five hours later, shutting down blocks of the city. Peshawar is the capital of troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where militants often target police and security forces. The area where the assault happened is near the American Consulate, but police said that building was not the target. TV footage showed commandos and police surrounding the consulate and checking vehicles.

#3: The shooting began hours after suspected U.S. missiles struck two vehicles carrying militants in northwest Pakistan and killed four of them. The overnight missile attack happened in the troubled Kurram tribal region bordering Afghanistan. The slain men were from Taliban's Haqqani network, which is blamed for launching attacks across the border against the American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, two intelligence officials said. The spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

#4: Meanwhile, on the southern outskirts of the capital, Kabul, a gunman opened fire on a busload of Afghan Supreme Court clerks, killing three and wounding 12, the Interior Ministry reported. Assailants on two motorcycles halted the bus Tuesday morning in the Musayi district, an area where insurgents are active, court spokesman Abdul Malik Kamawi said. One gunman then boarded the bus and opened fire with an automatic weapon, killing two people, Kamawi said. A third died later in a hospital.

#5: Also Tuesday, the coalition said it killed two insurgents and wounded a third in an airstrike Monday on a Taliban commander in charge of logistics in Kandahar, including the coordination of homemade bomb attacks. A number of Taliban and allied Haqqani Network commanders were also detained in operations Monday, including one recently returned from teaching bomb-making techniques in Pakistan, NATO said.

#6: In Zabul province bordering Kandahar, insurgents on Monday night ambushed a convoy carrying food and other supplies, killing two private security guards and wounding five others, provincial government spokesman Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar said.

#7: Afghan and foreign troops killed 18 insurgents during a gun battle in the Manogai district of northeastern Kunar province on Monday, provincial governor Fazlullah Wahedi said. Four Afghan troops were wounded, he said.

#8: Two Afghan children were killed when militants attacked an ISAF outpost in the Maidan Shahr district of Wardak province, west of Kabul on Monday, ISAF said. Insurgents fired three rounds at the outpost, one of which landed in the nearby village of Adamkhel, killing the children, it said.

#9: Three aid workers were killed and two others sustained injuries as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Afghanistan's northeast Badakhshan province, Mohammad Amin Sohail the spokesman for provincial administration said Tuesday. "The tragic incident happened in Shahr-e-Buzarg district on Monday afternoon. As a result, Mohammad Javed the office in-charge of OXFAM and two of his colleagues were killed," Sohail told Xinhua. All the victims are Afghans, he asserted. Another two people, including an employee of the office, were injured, he further said.

#10: At least six suspected militants were killed and another three were injured Tuesday as Pakistani military jets and gunship helicopters pounded heavy artillery on militants hideouts in Khyber tribal agency in northwest Pakistan, local sources told Xinhua. The air strikes targeted Ghaibee Baba and Sandane tribe's Sipah area in Bara district of Khyber Agency, local sources said.


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DoD: Pfc. Chad D. Coleman

DoD: Pvt. Adam J. Novak

DoD: Capt. Ellery R. Wallace

DoD: Pfc. Bryn T. Raver

DoD: Gunnery Sgt. Floyd E. C. Holley

DND/CF: Corporal Brian Pinksen

EST/MoD: Junior Herdis Sikka