War News for Thursday, September 27, 2012

The DoD is reporting a new death previously unreported by the military. Gunners Mate 2nd Class Dion Rashun Roberts died in a vehicle accident in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on Saturday, September 22nd. He was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.


‘CIA sends monthly fax to ISI outlining drone attack plans’

Local soldier critically wounded in Afghanistan

Afghan troops taking on perilous fight against insurgency

25 Japanese SDF personnel sent to Iraq commit suicide


Reported security incidents
#1: A total of 45 Taliban militants were killed during military operations in different Afghan provinces within the past 24 hours, the country's Ministry of Interior Affairs said Thursday. "Afghan National Police in collaboration with the army and the NATO-led coalition forces launched six joint cleanup operations in Kunduz, Uruzgan, Wardak, Ghazni, Ghor and Helmand provinces, killing 45 armed Taliban insurgents and detaining 32 other suspects over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement providing daily operational updates to the media.

#2: Two civilians were killed and two other civilians were wounded when an explosive device fixed in a motorcycle went off in a bazaar in Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province on Wednesday afternoon, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang told Xinhua on Thursday morning.


DoD: Gunners Mate 2nd Class Dion Rashun Roberts