The US Marine Corps Bell/Boeing MV-22 Osprey and HMS Illustrious are taking part in a US-led Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFX) on the Eastern seaboard of the United States (these aircrafts are getting ready to be deployed later this fall)
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MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Marne soldier in "an attack east of Baghdad". As a date of death was not given, we will assume the date of the report, Thursday, July 12th.
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The Associated Press is reporting the death of a Dutch soldier, part of the NATO contingent in Afghanistan. The soldier was severely wounded along with three other Dutch soldiers in a horrific suicide bombing in the Deh Rawod District in the southern tip of Oruzgan Province on Tuesday, July 10th, a bombing that also killed 17 civilians, including 13 elementary school students. The four soldiers were medically evacuated back to the Netherlands where 1st Lieutenant Tom Krist, 24, passed away from his injuries on Thursday, July 12th. The Dutch Ministry of Defense has confirmed his death.
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Baghdad:
#1: U.S. forces battled Iraqi police and gunmen Friday, killing six policemen, after an American raid to capture an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of leading a cell of Shiite militiamen, the military said. Seven gunmen also died in the fight. The U.S. troops captured the lieutenant in a pre-dawn raid in Baghdad, but the soldiers came under "heavy and accurate fire" from a nearby Iraqi police checkpoint, as well as intense firing from rooftops and a church, the military said in a statement. During the battle, U.S. warplanes struck in front of the police position, without hitting it directly, "to prevent further escalation" of the battle, it said. There were no casualties among the U.S. troops..
#2: Gunmen killed five Iraqi government guards outside the ministry of the interior in central Baghdad on Friday, police said. Police said nine other guards were wounded in the early morning machinegun attack on a watchtower at the main gate of the ministry's heavily fortified compound.
#3: An Iraqi reporter working for The New York Times was shot dead on his way to work in Baghdad on Friday, the newspaper said. Khalid Hassan, 23, was shot dead in the Saidiya district of the capital, the Times said in a statement. The circumstances of the attack were unclear, it said.
#4: An Iraqi soldier was killed and two others wounded by a roadside bomb targeting their patrol in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Dora, police said
#5: Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on Friday in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone compound, Iraqi police said.
An insurgent mortar or rocket attack Friday on a compound where the British and U.S. consulates are located in southern Iraq set an unused building on fire but caused no casualties, a British military spokesman said.
#6: One female civilian was killed and four others wounded in an explosive charge attack that ripped through an outdoor market in al-Zaafaraniya, southern Baghdad, on Thursday night, an Iraqi police source said on Friday. "The explosive device, planted near one of the entrances to the Maryam outdoor market in the central Zaafaraniya area, went off on Thursday evening," the source, who declined to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq
#7: 3 civilians were killed and 5 others were injured when the US troops opened fire after an IED explosion targeted the US army convoy in Al Fadhiliyah neighborhood north east Baghdad around 11:00 am. A car and a house were burnt in the incident.
Diyala Prv:
Baquba:
#1: A civilian was killed and 3 others were wounded when mortar shells hit Abo Saida district east Baquba early morning today.
Buhroz:
#1: A civilian was killed when mortar shells hit Buhroz area south of Baquba around 9,00 am.
Khalis:
#1: 2 civilians were wounded in an IED explosion in Raggat Al Shat area, part of Khalis town north of Baquba around 11:00 am.
#2: 10 civilians were injured when mortar shells hit Al Gsereen area, part of Khalis town north of Baquba around 1:10 pm.
Bani Saad:
#1: A civilians was killed and another was injured in an IED explosion targeted a car in Bani Saad area south of Baquba city around 1:45 pm.
Sawayra:
#1: Three bodies bearing signs of torture were recovered from a river near Sawayra.
#2: An Iraqi soldier was killed in a drive by shooting in the centre of Sawayra, a town 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
Samawa:
#1: Two children were killed and six wounded by a roadside bomb near a bus station in the southern city of Samawa, police said
An unknown explosion in the city of Samawa killed two children and wounded five others on Friday morning, an eyewitness said. The explosion "occurred in the residential neighborhood of al-Aaskari, southeastern Samawa, at 9:00 a.m. today," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). Local residents said the explosion could be the result of "old military scrap or unexploded shell in a heap of garbage that the children were playing near to," he added.
Kut:
#1: The U.S. Delta base in western Kut, 180 km southeast of Baghdad, came under mortar attack in the early hours of Friday, eyewitnesses said. "Six successive blasts were heard in the environs of the base and most probably they were caused by a mortar attack," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). Another eyewitness said "U.S. helicopters flew over the area following the attack."
Basra:
#1: An Iraqi doctor working for a Danish demining NGO in Iraq has been kidnapped and killed in the southern city of Basra, the Danish Refugee Council said yesterday. The organisation has suspended its demining programme in the region until the circumstances of the murder have been clarified, Michaela Bock Pedersen of the non-governmental Danish Demining Group (DDG) said in a statement. The man, identified only as Doctor Yousif, disappeared early on Monday on his way home from work at the DDG office. His body was found two days later, she added.
Dour:
#1: Four Iraqi policemen and two soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked their checkpoint in Dour, a small town near the northern city of Tikrit, police said
Mosul:
#1:" One policeman was killed and eight other officers plus a civilian were wounded by a roadside bomb in the restive northern city of Mosul, police said
Afghanistan:
#1: NATO-led and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving 10 suspected militants dead, an Afghan army officer said. Militants were killed following the battle in Gereshk district, in Helmand province
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