War News for Tuesday, December25, 2012

Reported security incidents
#1: Six militants have been killed and nine others detained in military operations over the last 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. "Afghan National Police (ANP) together with the army and the NATO-led coalition forces carried out six cleanup operations in Kunar, Nangarhar, Khost, Helmand and Nimroz provinces, killing six armed Taliban insurgents and detaining nine others over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in daily operational updates.

#2: Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed four Taliban militants including their commander in northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Monday, a statement of ISAF said Tuesday. “An Afghan and coalition security force killed the Taliban leader, Qadir, and three other insurgents, during an operation in Baghlan-e Jadid district, Baghlan province, yesterday,” the statement added.

#3: A roadside bomb explosion has killed three Afghan civilians in the western Afghanistan province of Farah, Press TV reports. Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, a provincial police spokesman, said that the incident took place on Tuesday when a civilian vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) in the province’s Bakwa district.

#4: Two local policemen, hailing from the Chora district of central Uruzgan province, were killed in the border town of Chaman in Balochistan province, said a local police commander, Allauddin. The policemen had taken a female patient to Chaman, where they were seized by Pakistani Taliban immediately after reaching the city, he said. The militants freed the woman but shot dead the policemen.

#5: Five armed Taliban were killed in a clash with police in Nangarhar province when the security forces wanted to destroy poppy cultivation in Khogyani district of that province. Hazrat Hosain Mashreqiwal spokesman for Nangarhar security commandment said to BNA, this event occurred when the national army forces and police went to Wazir area, Khogyani district for destroying of poppy farms came under armed attack. According to him, in this clash, five attackers attributed to Taliban group were killed and five others wounded. Mashreqiwal said, 4 civilians have been wounded as well. It is said that some days back, a clash took place in Wazir area, of Khogyani district for elimination of poppy farms in which 7 person were lost their lives.


News: Civ. Joseph Griffin