War News for Wednesday, July 16, 2014

News reports that a Czech soldier has died in Prague's military hospital on Monday, July 13th. The soldier was wounded in a suicide bombing which killed for other Czech soldiers on Tuesday, July 8th.


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Reported security incidents
#1: A US drone strike on Wednesday killed at least 13 people in a suspected militant compound in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt. "A US drone fired two missiles targeting a militant compound in Zoi Saidgai area, killing at least 13 insurgents," a senior security official in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, told AFP.

#2: Elsewhere in North Waziristan, air strikes in the Shawal Valley killed 35 militants, according to a statement from the military.

#3: At least three Afghan national army soldiers were martyred following separate improvised explosive device (IED) attacks.

#4: In the meantime defense ministey said at lease 37 militants were killed during opeations by Afghan soldiers in Khost, Kandahar and Helmand provinces.

#5: Unknown gunmen kidnapped the aid workers of a US-based non-governmental organization in western Herat province of Afghanistan. According to local government officials, the four aid workers were kidnapped by gunmen in Gozara district late Tuesday.

#6: At least 61 rockets have been fired in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan in the latest wave of cross-border shelling.

#7: A heavy explosion was heard in capital Kabul early Wednesday morning after a rocket landed in side the Kabul airport. Initial reports suggested that two rockets landed near Kabul airport without causing any casualties.

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