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December 14, 2010
NATO Service Member Dies in Southern Afghanistan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:35 a.m. EST on December 15, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A NATO service member died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan early Wednesday, the military coalition said. No further details were released.
More than 670 U.S. and other international troops have died in Afghanistan so far this year.
NATO forces have poured troops into the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand and have been making progress in their battle against the Taliban. But fighting has continued there and in the eastern provinces where the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based Taliban faction closely tied to al-Qaida, holds sway.
A joint NATO-Afghan operation on Dec. 13 captured a leader of the Haqqani network in the eastern Khost province, NATO said Wednesday. The man helped plant roadside bombs and planned other attacks on Afghan and coalition forces, NATO said.
NATO Service Member Dies in Southern Afghanistan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:35 a.m. EST on December 15, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A NATO service member died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan early Wednesday, the military coalition said. No further details were released.
More than 670 U.S. and other international troops have died in Afghanistan so far this year.
NATO forces have poured troops into the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand and have been making progress in their battle against the Taliban. But fighting has continued there and in the eastern provinces where the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based Taliban faction closely tied to al-Qaida, holds sway.
A joint NATO-Afghan operation on Dec. 13 captured a leader of the Haqqani network in the eastern Khost province, NATO said Wednesday. The man helped plant roadside bombs and planned other attacks on Afghan and coalition forces, NATO said.