War News for Wednesday, February 05, 2014

German deployments extended to Afghanistan, Mali

US cuts back on drone strikes in Pakistan, report


Reported security incidents
#1: Eight people were killed and 42 injured on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a charity hotel in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said, in an apparent sectarian attack. “Eight people were killed and twenty six have been injured in a suicide blast outside a local hotel yards away from an imambargah,” senior police official Faisal Mukhtar said.

#2: The blast came as a prominent scholar was gunned down in the same part of the city on Tuesday morning, in what also appeared to be a targeted sectarian killing.

#3: Three militants were killed and five others detained in military operations carried out by Afghan security forces since early Tuesday, said the country's Interior Ministry on Wednesday.