Sunday, July 15, 2012

Afghanistan War News Updates -- July 15, 2012

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Julie Nicholson shakes hands with an Afghan child during a mission in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, July 8, 2012. Nicolson is a female engagement team leader assigned to Marine Headquarters Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force. Her team conducts searches of Afghan women and children and gains information from the women who are not permitted to interact with men outside of their families. U.S. Marine Corps courtesy photo

Taliban Mounts New Wave Of Attacks In Afghanistan -- Zee News

Kabul: Taliban insurgents have been mounting a new wave of violent attacks over the past couple of weeks since they launched the annual spring offensive against Afghan government forces and NATO-led troops.

A total of 18 people were injured Sunday morning when Taliban carried out twin blasts in eastern Logar province, some 60 km south of capital city of Kabul, a provincial police source said.

"Our report said that a total of 18 people with majority of them civilians were injured in two back-to-back bomb blasts in provincial capital Pul-e-Alam this morning," deputy provincial police chief Rahis Khan Saddiq told Xinhua. He said a number of police and army soldiers were among the injured.

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More News On Afghanistan

ISAF Joint Command morning operational update, July 15 -- ISAF
War in Afghanistan News 15 July 2012 -- War On Terror News
Two NATO troops killed in Afghan attacks -- Stars and Stripes
NATO service member killed in attack -- UPI
Marine corporal dies in combat in Afghanistan -- L.A. Times

Afghan cabinet minister escapes harm in latest attack on officials -- L.A. Times
Afghan Minister Survives Attack -- Voice of America
Afghan minister survives assassination attempt -- Reuters
Afghan minister Obaidullah Obaid survives assassination attempt in Kunduz -- MSNBC

Female Afghan politician Hanifa Safi killed -- BBC
Bomb kills head of women's affairs in Afghan east -- Reuters
Bomb kills provincial women's affairs chief in Afghanistan -- L.A. Times

Key Afghan lawmaker assassinated at daughter's wedding -- Washington Post
Senior Afghan lawmaker among dead after wedding bombing -- Stars and Stripes/Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Afghan minister: Initial evidence ties Taliban, terrorists to wedding attack that killed 23 -- Washington Post/AP

Afghans seeking aid in Farah province guided toward self-sufficiency -- Stars and Stripes
The Realist Prism: Is Afghanistan Really a Major U.S. Ally? -- Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review
Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran: review -- Alex Spillius, The Telegraph

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