War News for Wednesday, April 28, 2010

MNF-Iraq (OIF) is reporting the death of a United States Division-North Soldier in a roadside bombing in Diyala Province, Iraq presumably on Tuesday, April 27th.


Rights group: Torture routine in secret Iraq jail

Two Turkish soldiers killed in PKK ambush in Şemdinli

2,000 containers with ISAF goods still missing:

Army Releases March Suicide Data:


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb went off on Wednesday in southern Baghdad.

#2: Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb went off on Wednesday in western Baghdad.

#3: Four persons, from the same family, were killed and two more were wounded in a sticky bomb explosion in northern Baghdad, according to a security source. “A bomb, stuck to a taxi, went off in al-Bunouk region in northern Baghdad, killing four family members as well as two passing civilians,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Mosul:
#1: An improvised explosive device exploded targeting a police vehicle patrol in al-Resala neighborhood in western Mosul, injuring a police lieutenant,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: One civilian was wounded when a gunman threw a hand grenade on a police patrol in al-Kourniesh street in central Mosul,” he added.

#3: A policeman was killed and three persons were wounded in western Mosul, a police source said on Tuesday. “A policeman was killed on Tuesday and another one was wounded when gunmen opened fire at them using guns with silencers at a police checkpoint in al-Zenjili region, western Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The policemen responded by opening fire randomly, injuring a passing child and a civilian,” he added.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: At least six civilians were killed driving home from the shops when their vehicle struck an improvised bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an official said. They were heading home from a weekly shopping trip when the roadside bomb, widely seen in Taliban attacks on military targets, struck their vehicle, Mubarez Zadran, a spokesman for the provincial government told foreign news agency. The incident in Tani district, a troubled region in Khost province, is the latest in a string of Taliban-related violence taking its toll on Afghan civilians -- about 2,000 of whom are killed each year, the United Nations has said. "According to initial information from the area six people, all civilians, have been killed and four others injured," he said.

#2: Four police officials embraced martyrdom whereas six others were wounded, one of them critically, as explosive laden vehicle hit police post here at Pir Bala area in the suburbs of Provincial capital on Wednesday morning. CCPO Peshawar Liaqat Ali told media that the terrorists struck explosive laden pick up with police post Pir Bala killing four cops on the spot while injuring six others. The injured police officials were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar where condition of one cop Zeeshan is stated to be critical.

#3: Kandahar Police Chief Sher Mohammed Zazai said militants detonated explosives near the city in an attack targeting a compound providing logistical support to NATO forces. He said at least three people were killed about one mile (two kilometers) from Kandahar Air Field. Hospital workers said at least 35 others were injured.
There were conflicting casualty reports. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf said one suicide bomber and two armed insurgents killed 15 people and wounded 60 others and burned eight oil tankers on the site. Zulmai Ayubi, a spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor, put the death toll at four and said 30 were injured.

#4: Also Tuesday, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said a rocket attack killed three civilians and wounded three others in a home in the northern Kunduz province. The ministry blamed insurgents for the Monday night attack.

#5: Afghan forces eliminated seven Taliban insurgents and injured several others in Baghlan province north of Afghanistan, commander of Afghan army in northern region General Murad Ali Murad said Wednesday.