Prince Harry lauched Hellfire that killed latest Taliban Commander Citat:The 28-year-old gunship co-pilot was called on to unleash a missile strike to eliminate a senior terror leader.
Harry has proved a massive hit with comrades in Helmand, Afghanistan, who have nicknamed him Big H.
Citat:More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers died in action this year, the highest since the Taliban insurgency began, as the army assumes more responsibility before NATO forces withdraw in 2014, officials said Dec. 30.
“In the past nine months, 906 Afghan army soldiers were killed. A total of 1,056 soldiers were killed in 2012,” defense ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi told reporters in Kabul. “The toll has increased compared to the previous years.”
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Citat:U.S. troop deaths declined overall from 404 last year to 295 as of Saturday. The Defense Department says 1,701 U.S. troops have been killed in action in Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion in 2001 until Dec. 26. Of those, 338 died from non-hostile causes. Some 18,154 were wounded.
A total of 394 foreign troops, including the Americans, were killed in 2012, down from 543 in 2011. The British, with the second-largest military presence, had 43 killed — the second-highest toll among countries with forces in Afghanistan, by AP's count.
Citat:Deaths from so-called insider attacks — Afghan police and troops killing foreign allies — surged to 61 in 45 attacks last year compared with 2011, when 35 coalition troops were killed in 21 attacks.
The number, provided by the NATO command, does not include the Dec. 24 killing of an American civilian adviser by a female member of the Afghan police because the investigation is ongoing.
Citat:Two suicide bombers struck a meeting of community leaders in a southern Afghan town near the border with Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 15, police said.
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6 Afghan police officers missing in Farah province
Citat:According to local authorities in western Farah province of Afghanistan, at least 6 Afghan police officers are missing from a security check post in Pusht-e-Rud district.
A British ISAF soldier has been shot in what seems to be another "insider attack" against foreign troops.
Citat:"An individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform turned his weapon against International Security Assistance Force service members in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing one," ISAF said in a statement, which ít released a day after the attack took place.
http://www.dw.de/isaf-soldier-killed-by-afghan-in-uniform/a-16504852
