War News for Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Pakistan releases 3 senior Afghan Taliban leaders


Reported security incidents
#1: Suspected Taliban gunmen have killed six aid workers in Afghanistan and wounded a seventh. Police in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab said Wednesday that the attackers targeted local workers for a French aid group known as ACTED. ACTED released a statement saying its workers, who were Afghans, were ambushed and gunned down as they were traveling by car in Faryab province. Of seven passengers in the car, only one survived.

#2: An Afghan local leader was killed in a drive-by shooting in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, said a provincial source on Wednesday. "The leader named Abdul Satar was killed following a shooting incident in Kabali Wat area of provincial capital Lashkar Gah Tuesday evening. The attackers riding a motorbike fled the scene shortly after the incident," the provincial government spokesman Omar Zwak told Xinhua.

#3-4: At least five cops were killed and aother was injured in two separate incidents of firing at police mobiles in Pakistan's southern Hyderabad city on Tuesday night, local media reported.

#3: The first incident happened at about 7:45 p.m. local time when some unknown gunmen coming on motorbikes opened fire at a police mobile in Latif Abad area of Hyderabad, a main city in the country 's south Sindh province. Police said that the killed cops working for A-Section police station of the city were attacked when they stopped at the main road for checking passing vehicles.

#4: Minutes after the attack, another incident of firing took place in almost the same area when some unknown gunmen sprayed bullets at a police mobile, killing one police man and injuring another.

#5: At least 33 Taliban militants were killed during military operations conducted by Afghan national security forces in various provinces of Afghanistan during the past 24 hours.