War News for Thursday, April 04, 2013

2,200 wounded servicemen carried from Afghanistan through Azerbaijan within 8 months of 2012


Reported security incidents
#1: update Insurgents wearing Afghan National Army uniforms killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 100 others Wednesday in a nearly nine-hour attack on Afghan government buildings in the southwestern province of Farah, said Mohammad Akram Ekhpelwak, the province's governor. The firefight has ended. Of the dead, 34 are civilians and 10 are Afghan security forces, according to Ekhpelwak. Nine armed attackers are dead, he added. The attackers drove army vehicles to gain access to the area, said police chief Noor Agha Kantoz.

#2: A NATO air strike killed four Afghan police and two civilians on Thursday, Afghan officials said. A spokesman for the US-led NATO force in Kabul told AFP that the military was checking the information. The attack happened after Taliban insurgents attacked a local police post in eastern Ghazni province before dawn and NATO planes were called in to support the officers under attack. "The NATO planes went there to assist the police, but the post was bombed and four police were killed. Two civilians present were also killed," Fazul Ahmad Tolwak, chief of Ghazni's Deh Yak district, told AFP. Ghazni provincial administration spokesman Fazul Sabawoon confirmed the incident and gave a similar account.

#3: At least three soldiers were injured and four militants killed when a group of Afghan assailants stormed an army check post in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency on Thursday morning, local media reported. ARY TV said that in a pre-dawn incident, the militants coming from Afghanistan attacked the check post located in Ali Zai area of Lower Kurram Agency, a militancy-hit tribal region at Pakistan Afghan border. By using sophisticated weapons, the militants injured three soldiers and destroyed the check post partially, said that report. The troops countered the attack with full force, killing four militants and injuring six others.