War News for Saturday, November 16, 2013

Reported security incidents
#1: Police say a bomb has exploded near the venue where thousands of influential Afghan figures will gather next week to debate a key U.S.-Afghan security pact. The powerful blast was heard around 3 p.m. local time near the compound on the western edge of the Afghan capital.

#2: Afghan police killed five Taliban militants during series of operations throughout the country over the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Saturday. The operations, according to the statement, were carried out in Balkh, Kapisa, Kandahar, Logar and Helmand provinces during which one more militant was wounded and two others arrested.

#3-5: Multiple bomb blasts shook Pakistan's northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province today, killing at least one policeman and injuring nearly a dozen people.

#3: Officials said a police van was targeted with a roadside bomb in Mandi area. A policeman was killed and two more were injured.

#4: Earlier, an attack by a suspected suicide bomber in Bannu wounded four paramilitary Frontier Corps personnel and two passers-by, media reports said.

#5: Another bomb attack on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Peshawar injured three persons. Bomb disposal squad officials said an estimated five kilograms of explosives concealed in a cylinder went off near a police van on Kohat Road. The van was destroyed and two policemen and a woman were injured. 

#6: A roadside bomb struck a police van injuring nine people including five civilians outside Nangarhar's provincial capital Jalalabad, 120 km east of Kabul on Saturday, police said. "The tragic incident took place at 11:00 a.m. local time injuring nine people including five innocent civilians and four policemen,"provincial police chief Fazal Ahmad Shirzad told Xinhua.


DoD: Staff Sgt. Richard L. Vazquez