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  • IED kills three insurgents in Oruzgan

    Three insurgents attempted to plant an IED in Deh Rawod district, Oruzgan province, approximately 200 km southwest of Kabul, along a well traveled road when it detonated, killing two of the insurgents. Local villagers reported an explosion to the ANSF, who discovered the dead and wounded. Afghan

  • Zabul PRT Facilitates Provincial Winterization Planning Efforts.

    Chronic drought conditions in Zabul Province in recent years have made winter season food security a priority for GIRoA, ISAF and international donors. The U.N. World Food Programme, Winterization Program provides humanitarian food commodities to affected districts in Zabul Province affected on an

  • 451st Air Expeditionary Group changes command

    With the symbolic passing of the unit flag, the 451st Air Expeditionary group changed command during a ceremony attended by Afghan and Coalition partners Dec. 13 in Southern Afghanistan. Col. Luther Turner, who served as 451st AEG commander since Jan. 9, relinquished command to Col. Theodore

  • President Bush visits Bagram Air Field

    President George W. Bush paid a visit to the service members of Combined Joint Task Force-101 during his last visit to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan as President of the United States, Dec. 15. Hundreds of U.S. service members let out cheers as Air Force One landed on the nearby flight line. Soon

  • Coalition forces ambushed during reconnaissance patrol

    Coalition forces conducting a night-time dismounted reconnaissance patrol in Deh Rawood district, Uruzgan Province, approximately 125 km north of Kandahar, were ambushed with small-arms, machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire, Dec. 10. Coalition forces returned fire with small-arms and were

  • ANSF Commandos and Coalition forces capture key IED facilitator

    Afghan National Commandos, assisted by Coalition forces, detained a known IED facilitator during a security patrol on Dec. 11, in Boti Kot, Nangahar Province, approximately 275 km east of Kabul. While the Commandos and Coalition forces were conducting a routine security patrol in the Boti Kot

  • Coalition forces maintain pressure in Kabul and Zabul provinces

    Coalition forces killed one militant and detained sixteen suspected militants during operations targeting Hizb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) and Taliban commanders in Kabul and Zabul provinces, Friday. In Surobi District, approximately 30 km northeast of Kabul, Coalition forces detained eight suspected

  • ANSF, Coalition forces disrupt IED cell in Helmand

    Afghan National Security Forces and Coalition forces killed five militants, destroyed six improvised explosive devices and destroyed a cache of bomb-making materials during two operations Thursday and Friday in Nahr Surkh District, Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan. In the first operation on

  • President of Afghanistan Visits USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)

    Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan flew aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Dec. 11 for his first-ever visit to a U.S. aircraft carrier. Karzai visited the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier at sea to gain a better understanding of how the U.S. Navy conducts operations in