War News for Friday, January 03, 2014

Pakistani TV reporter becomes first journalist killed in 2013

Qaeda-Aligned Militants Threaten Key Iraqi Cities

NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption


Reported security incidents
#1: Gunmen in Afghanistan have killed a senior female official in the western city of Herat, police say. She was shot in the head by two unknown attackers on a motorbike as she left her office in the city centre and died at the scene.

#2: Five Afghan civilians were killed while 18 others were wounded Thursday in an explosion in the country’s eastern province of Logar, authorities said. An improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a motorcycle was detonated around 4 p.m. local time in Baraki Barak district bazaar.


DoD: Sgt. Jacob M. Hess