War News for Saturday, December 14, 2013

Reported security incidents
#1: According to initial reports, missiles fired by the drone aircraft struck a boat in the Kabul river on the Afghan side of the porous border, close to Loe Shalman area in Landi Kotal subdivision of Pakistan’s Khyber tribal agency. Intelligence sources suggested the strike was carried out in Lalpura area of Nangarhar province Afghanistan. According to some reports, the attack killed up to five suspected militants.

#2: Local officials of eastern Nuristan province said that two civilians were killed by a roadside bomb on Saturday morning in Chapa Dara District of the province.

#3: A powerful blast hit eastern Afghan town of Mehterlam, the capital of Laghman province 90 km east of Kabul on Saturday, wounding 19 people, with some in critical condition, spokesman for provincial administration said. Apparently the bomb was planted on a vehicle of traffic police, and exploded in Asmat Square of Mehterlam town, injuring civilians, " he added.

#4: Units of Afghan police backed by the army have killed 13 Taliban militants during a 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 have been carried out in Kunar, Laghman, Kunduz, Jowzjan and Kandahar provinces during which the troops killed 13 armed militants. They also injured four rebels and captured three others.

#5: A roadside bomb struck a police van in the southern Ghazni province on Saturday, killing three police and wounding two others, a local police official said.