U.S. Marines escort farmers fleeing their land as coalition forces battle Taliban in Trikh Nawar, a poppy farmland area on the northeastern outskirts of Marjah, on Friday. It was the seventh day of Operation Moshtarak, a major NATO offensive against the Taliban in and around Marjah, in southern Helmand Province.
KABUL, Afghanistan - A service member with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan was killed Friday by small-arms fire in southern Afghanistan, the military force said. The fatality occurred as part of Operation Moshtarak. The service member was not immediately identified, nor was any additional information provided.
NATO-led forces in Afghanistan have suffered 83 deaths this year, 46 of them Americans. Thirty U.S. military members lost their lives in January and another 16 in February. Nearly 900 American military have died in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) - A suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region killed the son of a notorious al Qaeda-linked militant group leader, sources told CNN on Friday.
The pilotless aircraft fired two missiles at a militant compound in North Waziristan Thursday night and killed four people. One of them was Muhammad Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani - whose militant network, known as the Haqqani network - is accused of targeting U.S. and international forces across the Afghan border from its base in Pakistan's rugged tribal region. FULL POST