War News for Tuesday, June 21, 2011

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed area in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, June 20th.

NATO is reporting the death of another ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed area in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, June 20th.


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: In Baghdad, a bomb attached to a minibus killed the driver while the bus was traveling Tuesday in the capital's western Harithiya neighbourhood, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Mousawi said. It was not immediately known what was the motive was behind the attack.

#2: A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi solider and wounded five people, including three soldiers, in Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

#3: Armed men in a speeding car using silenced weapons killed an Iraqi army brigadier while he was inside his car in Baghdad's northern Shaab district late on Monday, an Interior Ministry source said.

An Iraqi Interior Ministry’s officer, with a lt-brigadier rank, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen in northeast Baghdad late Monday night, a security source said on Tuesday. “A group of armed men have assassinated Lt-Brigadier, Khudhier Chakhiour Kadhim, of Iraq’s Interior Ministry, when they opened fire on him from guns fixed with silencers, while driving his car in northeast Baghdad’s al-Shaab district on Monday night,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#4: “Two booby-trapped cars blew off against an alcohol-selling shop central Baghdad’s Karrada district and the second, also in Karrada, causing material damage, but no human casualties,” he added.

#5: Two armed men have been killed and three others arrested, when they tried to launch rockets in Baghdad, a Baghdad Operations Command announced on Tuesday. “The security forces have killed 2 armed men and arrested 3 others, when they tried to launch rockets,” the security source told the semi-official al-Iraqiya TV Channel, giving no further details.


Diwaniya:
#1: Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles early Tuesday near a government compound by a southern Iraqi governor's home, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said. Diwaniyah Gov. Salim Hussien Alwan said he was leaving his house when a suicide bomber rammed into a police checkpoint outside his house. Minutes later, another suicide bomber attacked a compound housing the governor's office and other governmental buildings, according to a police officer and two medical officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to journalists. At least 37 people were wounded in the attacks which occurred at about 7:30 a.m. when security forces were changing shifts, the officials said.


Shomaly:
#1: An explosive charge was blown up against a U.S. Army patrol in southern Iraq’s Babel province on Tuesday, a Babel police source said. “An explosive charge blew off against a U.S. Army patrol, while passing through al-Shomaly township, 40 km to the south of Hilla, the center of southern Iraq’s Babel Province on Tuesday,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He said the American troops have cordoned the venue of the blast, shooting fire in the air, whilst losses were not known.


Mussayab:
#1: Five people were killed and nine others wounded when a bomb left in a restaurant went off in Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Three people were killed and seven others were wounded, including a police chief, in a bomb explosion in a town in south of Baghdad on Tuesday, a local police source told Xinhua. A bomb hidden outside a popular coffee shop in the town of al- Mussyab, some 50 km south of Baghdad, went off and killed three people and wounded seven others, the source said on condition of anonymity. Lieutenant Colonel Salman al-Kharji, police chief of the nearby town of Jbala, was among the wounded as he was inside the coffee shop, the source said.


Kirkuk:
#1: A rocket fell on the building of the Province’s Council of northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Monday, causing some material damage, Kirkuk’s Koria Police Director said. “A rocket fell on a building under construction, inside Kirkuk Province’s Council headquarters, causing material damage, but no human casualties,” Lt-Brigadier, Taha Abdul-Rahman told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Two booby-trapped cars, parked in Ramadi, the center of west Iraq’s Anbar Province, were blow up by anti-explosive experts of Anbar Operations Command, causing no casualties, an Anbar security source reported on Tuesday. “A joint Iraqi Army and police force have discovered 2 booby-trapped cars, parked in central Ramadi’s al-Ziyout Street, blew them up, after failing to dismantle them,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He said that the place, where the two booby-trapped cars were parked, usually witnesses the movement of security patrols and motorcades of officials in central Ramadi, confirming that the explosion did not cause any human or material losses.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Authorities say a suicide bombing targeting a governor in northern Afghanistan has killed two people, including a 14-year-old girl. The bomber detonated a suicide vest Tuesday morning outside the office of Parwan provincial Gov. Abdul Basir Salangi as his car passed. Salangi was not injured in the attack. The Interior Ministry said two died in the attack and two were wounded. Dr. Abdul Khalil Farhangi of the provincial hospital says a 14-year-old girl walking by at the time of the attack was killed.

#2: Two rockets fell near the base for South Korean aid workers and troops in Afghanistan Monday, the South Korean foreign ministry said. No casualties or property damage was reported after the rockets landed near the base in Charikar at 9:56 p.m. local time, a ministry spokesman said.

#3: A suicide bomber in a vehicle blew himself up Monday night outside the house of a member of a pro-government peace body and killed four people in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, according to police and local media reports. The attack at Matni town, some 20 kilometers from Peshawar, also injured five more people and destroyed several buildings in the area. Samaa TV reported that chief of the anti-Taliban peace militia, Ijaz Bacha, was killed in the attack. Police sources said that the bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the guest house of the head of the peace committee, who was sitting with several members of the committee.


GE/MOD: private Gia Goguadze

DoD: Spc. Marcos A. Cintron

DoD: Spc. Scott D. Smith

DoD: Sgt. 1st Class Alvin A. Boatwright

DoD: Sgt. Edward F. Dixon III

DoD: Sgt. Alan L. Snyder

DoD: Spc. Tyler R. Kreinz

DoD: Pfc. Brian J. Backus

DoD: Pfc. Josue Ibarra

Fr/MoD: Le 1re classe Florian MORILLON du

War News for Monday, June 20, 2011

The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF soldier from small arms fire/gun shot wounds in the Nahr-e Saraj (North) District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on Saturday, June 18th. Here's the ISAF release.

NATO is reporting the deaths of four ISAF soldiers from a non-combat related incident in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, June 18th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED blast in an undisclosed area in southern Afghanistan on Monday, June 20th.


Pakistan hosting maximum 1.9 million refugees: UNHCR report

Few Taliban Leaders Take Afghan Offer to Switch Sides


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Seven people were wounded on Monday when a French embassy convoy was hit by a make-shift bomb in Baghdad in the second attack on the mission's vehicles in a month, an embassy official and local police said. The attack in Baghdad's al-Mesbah neighborhood. Iraqi security sources said seven people were wounded in the attack, but an embassy spokesman said no French diplomatic or security personnel were hurt though one of the convoy's vehicles was badly damaged.

"The bomb targeted a passing French diplomatic convoy. Four Iraqi guards protecting the convoy were hurt, and three people passing by were also wounded," an interior ministry official told AFP earlier.

#2: Two roadside bombs exploded near a restaurant in southeast Baghdad, wounding two civilians.

#3: A car bomb went off in northeast Baghdad. It killed one civilian and wounded four other people.

#4: Another roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad targeted a police patrol. It wounded one civilian and two police officers.

#5: Unknown gunment killed a police officer in southwest Baghdad.


Diyala Prv:
#1: Gunmen raided the house of a local council leader and killed him late on Sunday near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.


Mosul:
#1: A roadside bomb went off when a civilian car carrying a family was passing by, killing two boys and wounding three from the same family late Sunday east of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#2: Gunmen shot dead a young man in front of his house on late Sunday, in eastern Mosul, police said.


Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into Pakistan's Kurram region on Monday, killing at least 11 militants, nine of them from a major Afghan militant group fighting Western forces in Afghanistan, local officials said. An intelligence official in Kurram said the four missiles fired by drones targeted two militant compounds and a vehicle in the Khardand area, a stronghold of Fazal Saeed, a local militant commander.

#2: Dozens of militants have attacked the homes of two prominent anti-Taliban tribal elders close to the Afghan border, officials say. At least four were killed and four others, including one of the elders, injured in the tribal area of Mohmand. The raid on the homes of anti-Taliban elders happened in the Ziarat Masood village of Mohmand district, another area where the Taliban have been attempting to establish themselves. A group of militants stormed the village and attacked the houses of Malik Ghazi Khan and Malikh Ghulab Khan, members of a local peace committee, which oppose the Taliban, a local official told the AFP news agency. Four soldiers and 20 militants were killed in the clashes, officials say.

#3: A car bomb killed one person and wounded 12 in the southwestern Baluchistan province, police said.

#4: Six Afghan civilians were killed and six were injured Monday in rocket attacks in a border village between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a senior Afghan police official said. The rockets landed on a house in the remote Nari district, said General Ewaz Mohammed, the police chief of the eastern province of Kunar. 'Twelve rockets have been fired from the other side of the border,' Ewaz said without blaming a country or group for the attack.

#5: Two Estonian soldiers have been wounded in seperate blasts in Afghanistan. Neither of the soldiers received fatal injuries from the blasts, which both took place in the Helmand province where Estonian soldiers are based.

#6: Four Spanish soldiers and their interpreter were injured Saturday when their armoured vehicle hit an explosive device in Afghanistan, Defence Ministry sources said in Madrid, dpa reported. The five were on a reconnaissance patrol near Ludina in north-western Badghis province. Three of the victims suffered serious injuries. Two of them - a lieutenant and a female soldier - each had to have a leg amputated.

MoD: Craftsman Andrew Found

MoD: Corporal Lloyd Newell

MoD: Private Gareth Leslie William Bellingham

News of the Day for Sunday, June 19, 2011

Reported Security Incidents

Abu Ghraib

Gunmen wearing military uniforms invade a vegetable market and kill a shop owner on Saturday. (With no further information, one can only speculate that the shop owner was targeted either because of his past, because his current occupation was a front for some other activity, or perhaps to send a message to a relative. This is a good example of the general murkiness of the ongoing violence in Iraq. We have no way of knowing whether the uniforms were fake, either.)

Baquba

Sticky bomb kills a taxi driver and injures 3 of his passengers, who are university students. This follows a spate of recent violence in the city including a deadly bomb attack yesterday.

Baghdad

An Iraqi army officer is assassinated by gunmen using silenced weapons on Palestine St.

Nassiriya

Bomb attack on the home of the Chair of the Thi Quar provincial energy committee causes property damage but no casualties. The target, Hussein Hassab al-Awad, is a Sadrist politician.

Other News of the Day

Spc. Marcos A. Cintron, 32, 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, a native of Orlando, Fla., died Thursday in a hospital in Boston following a rocket attack on June 6 on a base in Baghdad. He is the sixth soldier to have died as a result of the incident.

The Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq holds a rally in France to demand protection for its forces stranded in Iraq. Prominent U.S. Republican politicians are in attendance, including Rudy "911" Giuliani. (This is an instructively ironic story. For those who don't know, the MEK has long been officially labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. Saddam Hussein gave them sanctuary because he was hostile to Iran; but the new Iraqi government, which is friendly to Iran, is trying to expel them, but has been unable to do so because they now enjoy a measure of U.S. protection. In April, the Iraqi army raided the MEK camp and it is alleged that 35 people were killed.)

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Osama al-Nujaifi claims the amount of Iraqi cash the U.S. cannot account for is $18.7 billion, three times the amount previously reported. Most readers will recall that in 2004, as Iraq's descent into chaos was escalating, the Bush Administration flew in 20 billion dollars in cash, derived from Iraqi assets in the U.S., with the intention that commanders use it to buy peace and loyalty. A recent audit concluded that almost $7 billion of the money cannot be accounted for, but Nujaifi is now claiming that almost all of it is missing. Leading Iraqi politicians are now starting to demand that the U.S. reimburse Iraq for the funds.)

Jacques Clement of AFP reports on the deteriorating state of the ruins of Ur.

Afghanistan Update

ISAF says 8 troops died Saturday, 4 in a motor vehicle accident, but gives no further details.

Three men dressed in Afghan army uniforms attack a police station near the presidential palace in Kabul. One detonates a suicide vest, the others continue the attack using automatic weapons. By the time security forces kill the remaining two attackers 2 hours later, they have killed three police officers, one intelligence agent and five civilians. TOLO news says 12 people were also injured in the incident.



Meanwhile Pakistan says it launched an offensive the the Mohmand tribal area near the Afghan border, resulting in the deaths of 25 militants and 4 Pakistani soldiers. At the same time, Pakistan summoned the Afghan Charge d’Affaires Majnoon Gulab to complain about an incursion by militants into Pakistan on June 16. Afghan officials deny the incident took place.

Suicide bomb attack on a German convoy in Kunduz kills 3 civilians, injures 11.

"The International Monetary Fund has rejected Afghanistan’s plan to deal with a failed bank at the center of a corruption crisis, a step that has blocked tens of millions of dollars in aid and may put development projects worth billions more at risk." The Afghan government did not adequately address the funds concerns over Kabulbank, resulting in the withholding of $70 million to the Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund. The corruption at the bank involves close associates and relatives of Hamid Karzai, and is one of several sources of strain between the U.S. and the Kabul government.

Quote of the Day

Now, with the perpetrator of Sept. 11 dead and buried at sea, most of us think it's time to bring our troops home and use them and our money to rebuild our country, rather than continue our silly and unsuccessful nation-building efforts in places such as Afghanistan. Obama doesn't seem to get it, but military leaders always want more troops and more money. That's what keeps them in business.

But to keep the U.S. in business, presidents should listen to the people who impartially understand the difference between war and peace, between austerity and prosperity.

Al Neuharth

War News for Saturday, June 18, 2011

The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF soldier from an IED blast in the Gereshk valley area, within the northern Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Thursday, June 16th. Here's the ISAF release which was posted on yesterdays blog.

The British MoD is reporting the death of another ISAF soldier from small arms fire somewhere in Helmand province on Thursday, June 16th. Here's the ISAF release which was also posted on yesterdays blog.

The DoD is reporting the death of an ISAF Marine during combat operations somewhere in Helmand province, Afghanistan on Thursday, June 16th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, June 18th.


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Two civilians have been killed and three others injured in a car blast in central Baghdad on Friday, a security sources said. “An explosive charge blew off under a car in central Baghdad’s Karrada district on Friday night, killing 2 civilians and wounding 3 others,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Diyala Prv:
#1: A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded three policemen and one civilian when it went off in central Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Lieutenant Colonel Ghalib al-Jubouri, a police spokesman in Diyala province, said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a government-backed Sunni Sahwa militia member in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: An officer, with captain rank, has been killed and three policemen injured when trying to dismantle an explosive charge in west Iraq’s city of Ramadi, an Anbar police source said on Friday. “An explosive charge, planted on the roadside west of Ramadi, was blown off, while trying to dismantle it, killing an officer, with captain rank and wounding 3 policemen,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A police officer and an eyewitness say suicide bombers have attacked a police station near the presidential palace in the heart of the Afghan capital, killing two police officers. A police officer said one suicide bomber also had been killed in the attack in Kabul that started early Saturday afternoon. The officer requested anonymity as he was not authorized to brief the media. A 32-year-old eyewitness, Mohammed Honayon, told The Associated Press the attackers were wearing Afghan army uniforms and opened fire as they tried to enter the police station. A gun battle between insurgents and security forces was still going on for control of the station.

#2: At least 15 NATO fuel tankers have been torched in the latest wave of attacks by militants in conflict-riddled Afghanistan. Militants in Afghanistan targeted convoys carrying supplies to NATO troops, killing nine Afghan security guards and torching 15 fuel tankers on Saturday. Two of the attacks targeted private guards escorting supply trucks to a base for Polish troops in the eastern Ghazni province. A third attack happened along the border between Herat and Farah provinces in the west.

#3: Pakistani forces killed three militants after insurgents attacked a military checkpost in the South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, killing one soldier and wounding two, local intelligence officials said.

#4: A roadside bomb attack on an army vehicle in the southwestern district of Panjgur near the Iran border killed a man and two children, and wounded over two dozen, four of them paramilitary soldiers, government officials said.

DoD: Sgt. Mark A. Bradley

War News for Friday, June 17, 2011

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, June 16th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an unreported reason in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, June 16th.


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi federal police vehicle killed one passer-by and wounded three others, including two policemen, in Baghdad's southern Doura district, an Interior Ministry source said.

#2: Armed men attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint late on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding three others in Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

#3: An Electricity Ministry employee was wounded when armed men opened fire on his car in Sadr City late on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.

#4: A roadside bomb wounded one policeman when it went off in Baghdad's southern Doura district late on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.


Hilla:
#1: Gunmen armed with machine guns stormed the house of an Iraqi contractor killing him and his Indian maid and his Turkish engineer guest in central Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, a local police source said.


Kurdistan:
#1: Seven Iranian soldiers were killed when they strayed into a minefield laid along their border with Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, a local Kurdish official said on Thursday. Jabar Yawar, spokesman for the local Iraqi Kurdish forces, said the Iranian troops were new to the area and had accidentally entered a minefield laid by Iran along the remote frontier with Kurdistan. "The newly arrived forces were unaware of the existence of a minefield where they got trapped. The mines killed all of them. There were seven of them, according to the information we have obtained," Yawar told Reuters.


Kirkuk:
#1: A dead body showing signs of torture and gunshot wounds was found in the southern part of the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, local police said.


Mosul:
#1: Gunmen shot dead a porter in a vegetable market in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a local police source said.

#2: Gunmen shot dead a civilian who was standing in front of his home in eastern Mosul, a local police source said.

#3: Armed men killed a civilian as he left a mosque late on Thursday in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#4: Armed men on foot killed a civilian near his house in western Mosul late on Thursday, local police said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A bomb blast destroyed a truck carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan in the ethnic Pashtun tribal region of Khyber on the Afghan border, a local government official said.

#2: Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a former Olympian boxer in a suspected sectarian attack in the southwestern Baluchistan province, police said. The deceased was a member of Muslim Shi'ite community.

#3: A roadside bomb hit a military convoy in the northwestern Orakzai region, wounding two soldiers, government officials in the region said


DoD: Pvt. Ryan J. Larson

War News for Thursday, June 16, 2011

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED blast in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 15th.


Tax on NATO containers (Where's the nut-ball tea party idiots complaining on this tax?)


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: “Two civilians have been injured in an explosive charge blast on the main road passing through west Baghdad’s al-Alawi district, that also caused damage to a number of shops,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: He said that “an explosives expert in Baghdad’s Saqr Division had succeeded to dismantle another explosive charge, planted on the road passing through northeast Baghdad’s Andalus Square.”


Mussayab:
#1: Babel security police sources said today that a civilian was killed and 6 injured in a bomb blast inside a grocery store to the north of Hilla town. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the bomb was planted in the grocery shop, in Mussaib town, 30 km north of Hilla town.


Suwiera:
#1: An armed man has been killed while trying to plant an explosive charge, targeted against the Deputy Chairman of the Support Council of Suweira township of southern Iraq’s Wassit Province, a Wassit security source said on Thursday. “An explosive charge blew off on Thursday against an armed man, who tried to plant it in front of the house of the Deputy Chairman of the Support Council of Sewiera, Adnan al-Juheishy, 135 km to the north of Kut, killing the armed man on the spot,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Basra:
#1: U.S. army helicopter opened fire on suspected insurgents after they fired rockets on Basra airport in southern Iraq, killing a suspect and wounding two, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The incident took place early on Wednesday morning when a U.S. military base stationed in the airport came under barrage of seven 107 mm rockets, a military statement said.

A Basra security source had stated for Aswat al-Iraq on Wednesday that a civilian had been killed and three others injured by U.S. forces fire that targeted them after an attack by 7 Katusha rockets on their base in Basra Airport.


Mosul:
#1: A member of north Iraq Mosul City’s Judicial Council has escaped an assassination attempt in eastern Mosul on Thursday, a Ninewa security source reported. “Member of Mosul’s Judicial Council, Zuheir Hazim al-Jiboury, has escaped an assassination attempt on Thursday morning, when an explosive charge blew off close to his house in the Officers district, east of Mosul,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He said the explosive charge blew off when Jiboury’s car approached it, wounding him in the leg,” he said, adding that his condition was “stable.”



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: More than 200 militants crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan early Thursday and attacked a border village with rockets, mortars and machine guns, killing five people in the second such raid in two weeks, a government official said. The Pakistani military responded to the attack in the Bajur tribal region from a nearby base, and fighting was still ongoing as of midmorning, said Sajid Khan, a senior government official in the area. The dead included three women and two men from the village in the Manozangal area, and many others were wounded, he said.

#2: A roadside bomb destroyed a tractor in southern Afghanistan, killing four civilians, a senior police official said Thursday, DPA reported. The blast occurred late Wednesday in Marof, a district in Kandahar, acting police chief, General Abdul Razaq told reporters Thursday. "A tractor carrying load and civilians drove on a roadside bomb last night. As a result, three women and a man were killed and four others including three women were wounded," Razaq said.

#3: Also, Afghan forces in Kandahar's Zhari and Arghandab districts killed 11 Taliban fighters Thursday morning, including two Taliban commanders, the police chief said. Another Taliban fighter was injured in the operation, he said.

#4: At least 15 people were killed as suspected US drones fired missiles in South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday. A resident said two missiles apparently hit a sprawling compound belonging to Mullah Nazir’s group — one of the most influential militant groups involved in fighting US-led forces across the border in Afghanistan — in Wana, the main town in the region. Two missiles targeted a vehicle used by militants in the same area.

DoD: Staff Sgt. Nicholas P. Bellard

DoD: Sgt. Glenn M. Sewell

DoD: Staff Sgt. Jeremy A. Katzenberger

DoD: Pfc. Eric D. Soufrine

War News for Wednesday, June 15, 2011

MNF-Iraq (OND) is reporting the deaths of Two U.S. service members while conducting operations in an undisclosed location in southern Iraq on Monday, June 13th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED blast in an undisclosed location in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, June 14th.


C.I.A. Building Base for Strikes in Yemen


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Gunmen using silenced weapons attacked an Iraqi military checkpoint and killed one soldier in Baghdad's northwestern Shula district, an Interior Ministry source said.

“A group of unknown gunmen have attacked an Iraqi Army checkpoint in the Rahmaniya area of northwest Baghdad’s al-Shu’ala city. An exchange of fire took place, which resulted in the killing of a soldier.

#2-3: A roadside bomb wounded two street cleaners in Baghdad's southern Doura district and another bomb wounded four people in the same area, a security source said.

“Two explosive charges blew up in southern Baghdad’s Daura district; the first in Street No. 60, wounding 3 sanitation workers, and the second in Tu’ma area, also in Daura district, wounding 4 civilians,” the security source added.

#4: Gunmen using silenced weapons killed an army lieutenant-general as he was driving in his car in the northern Baghdad district of Binoog, an interior ministry source said.

#5: Gunmen using silenced weapons killed two soldiers in the Jamiaa district in the west of the city, the interior ministry source said.


Amarra:
#1: A military airport in southern Iraq’s city of Amara, the center of Missan Province, had come under a two Katusha rocket attack on Tuesday night, according to a Missan security source on Wednesday. “Al-Buteira Military Airport, 5 km to the northwest of Amara city, had come under an attack by two Katusha rockets on Tuesday night,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He said the two rockets fell on a position, used by the Iraqi Army as its headquarters in the area, causing no human or material losses, adding that the Iraqi Army forces had imposed a cordon around the areas, close to the venue of the attack.


Dujail:
#1: Security sources in Dijail area reported than unknown gunmen wearing Iraqi army attire killed four persons from the same family. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the deceased were the father, mother and two sons, but left 15-year girls before fleeing.


Kirkuk:
#1: Ten Iraqi army men, including two officers, have been injured in a mortar shell attack on a checkpoint in northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, a Kirkuk security source said. “A motar shell fell on a checkpoint, belonging to the Iraqi Army’s 15th Division, in Al-Rashad village, 35 km to the southwest of Kirkuk, wounding 8 soldiers and 2 officers,” he said.


Mosul:
#1: Gunmen in a speeding car attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint and killed two soldiers in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#2: Gunmen using silenced weapons killed a policeman in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#3: A military source said today that a car bomb was captured and successfully dismantled north of Mosul city.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded four in a strike Wednesday on a governor's office in the northeast. Provincial spokesman Halim Ayar said the bomber blew himself up about 200 metres from the office of Governor Azizul Rahman Tawab in the northeast Kapisa province. He said four of the dead were police officers and four were civilians. All the wounded were civilians, he added. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that seven people were killed, including two police officers and five civilians. It added that seven others were wounded, including a police officer. The discrepancy in the casualty numbers, which is common in the aftermath of such attacks, could not immediately be resolved.

#2: Meanwhile, in central Wardak province, a mortar landed next to a large building where Afghanistan's second vice president, Mohammed Karim Khalili and Interior Minister Bismullah Khan Mohammadi, along with NATO officials, celebrated the opening of the flagship centre of a multibillion dollar NATO program to train Afghan national security forces ahead of a planned withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces at the end of 2014. The deafening blast shook the building and more than 500 police recruits ducked for cover. Gunshots rang out after the attack. Bodyguards rushed Afghan and NATO officials into a hardened shelter before evacuating them on helicopters.

#3: Also Wednesday, in the southern province of Kandahar, the governor's office said NATO and Afghan troops killed 14 armed insurgents. Nine were killed after crossing the Pakistan border, while five were killed while allegedly trying to plant roadside bombs, the governor's office said.

#4: A rocket attack in Kandahar city wounded four civilians in the Aymo Mina district, provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq said.

#5: Gunmen attacked and torched two trucks carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, a paramilitary spokesman said. No one was hurt in the attack.

#6: A helicopter crashed in Kunar province 185 km east of capital city Kabul on Wednesday, an official said. "The chopper crashed in Mandapul, a suburban area of provincial capital Assadabad, at around 10 a.m. local time today. As a result, four foreigners and two Afghans were injured," spokesman for provincial administration, Wasifullah Wasifi, told Xinhua. However, he did not give further details.

#7: Two Swedish soldiers were lightly injured in connection with an explosion in north Afghanistan at 6pm Swedish time. The soldiers were on foot patrol when the explosion erupted. There was no fire fight in connection to this. The Swedish military do not know what was behind this. "It could have been a mine, a home-made bomb or a handgrenade.