Not Killed By American Troops

At Least 20 Afghans Not Killed by American Troops: Suicide Bombing of Hospital

A suicide car bomber killed at least 20 people, and possibly as many as 35, in an attack at a hospital in a remote district of eastern Afghanistan on Saturday that damaged its maternity ward, officials said, according to a Reuters report.

Estimates of the casualties, which included patients and medical staff, varied widely in chaotic scenes outside the hospital in the remote Azra district of eastern Logar province, which is just south of Kabul.

Dozens more were wounded in one of the worst attacks this year.

Deen Mohammad Darwish, a spokesman for the Logar provincial government, said as many as 35 people were killed, although Afghanistan's Interior Ministry put the death toll at 20.

34 People in Peshawar Not Killed by American Troops, 100 Wounded: Suicide Bomb

Two explosions went off minutes apart in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding nearly 100 in one of the deadliest attacks since the United States military raid that killed Osama bin Laden last month, officials said, according to the AP.

The blasts, one of which was caused by a suicide bomber, occurred just after midnight in an area of the city that is home to political offices and army housing.

11 Iraqis in Mosul Not Killed by American Troops: Car Bombs

Twin car bombs ripped through a crowded neighborhood of restaurants and peanut vendors in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, and unidentified gunmen killed a teacher and his family in the central part of the country. At least 11 people were killed in the attacks, says The New York Times.

U.S. Army's 101st Pays High Price for Afghan Surge

The soldiers of the Army's famed 101st Airborne Division deployed to Afghanistan confident their counterinsurgency expertise would once again turn a surge strategy into a success but are headed home uncertain of lasting changes on the battlefield, according to the AP.

As the division's 24,000 soldiers return to Fort Campbell from their one-year deployment, doubts remain in the military that security in Afghanistan can last without a significant U.S. military presence for years. The division brought effective counterinsurgency lessons from Iraq, but is still waiting to see whether those strategies can take hold in Afghanistan.

What progress was made in improving security and governance came at a high price: The division known as the Screaming Eagles lost 131 soldiers, the most killed in a single deployment for the unit since Vietnam, with many more wounded or injured.

16 Pakistanis Killed by American Troops

The United States fired missiles at three suspected militant targets near the Afghan border Monday, killing 16 people and keeping the pressure on insurgents days after a strike was believed to have killed an al-Qaida commander, Pakistani intelligence officials said, according to an AP report.

 

5 US Troops Not Killed by American Troops

Five American troops were killed Monday in central Iraq, U.S. officials said — the single largest loss of life for the American military in Iraq in the past two years, AP reported.

 

 

1 British Soldier Not Killed By American Troops

Insurgents wielding rocket-propelled grenade launchers and rifles have shot dead a British soldier in southern Afghanistan, according to the Daily Mail Reporter.

The soldier was killed while on a security patrol with Afghan police in Helmand Province yesterday, according to the Ministry of Defence.

 

1 German Soldier Not Killed by American Troops

An ambush on an armoured vehicle in northern Afghanistan killed one German soldier and wounded another five Thursday, the military said in a statement, according to an AFP report.

Their armoured personnel carrier was struck by an improvised explosive device outside the city of Kunduz, five days after a suicide bombing claimed the lives of two German soldiers and the region's police chief.

 

2 NATO Soldiers Not Killed by American Troops

A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two NATO soldiers, the alliance said in a statement from Kabul, UPI reported.

The release by the International Security Assistance Force said the crash in the eastern province of Khost didn't appear to be the result of guerrilla activity.

However, China's Xinhua news agency said a spokesman for the fundamentalist Muslim Taliban insurgency group claimed its fighters had shot down the helicopter.

 

4 US Soldiers Not Killed by American Troops: IEDs

A former Red Bay resident was among four Army soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan by an improvised exploding device, timesdaily.com reported.

Christopher Roger Bell, 21, was killed along with three other members of the 3rd Platoon, 164th Military Police Unit, while on patrol.