The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF Marine from an IED attack near Patrol Base Blenheim in Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Sunday, May 9th.
NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, May 9th. Various news reports this to be a small arms weapons attack. We believe this to be an American.
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Reported security incidents
Baghdad:
#1: The first attack came around 3 a.m. in western Baghdad when gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on an army patrol, killing one soldier and injuring another, Iraqi officials said.
#2: That incident was followed by at least six other attacks. Although most of them were drive-by shootings.
At dawn in Baghdad, gunmen equipped with silencers killed at least seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen when they attacked six checkpoints
#3: a roadside bomb in western Baghdad targeting a police patrol killed three civilians.
Suwayrah:
#1: The single deadliest attack, however, struck civilians in the small town of Suwayrah as a pair of bombs - one in a parked car and the other planted along a road - killed eight passers-by and wounded 71, according to an Iraqi police official and a hospital worker in the nearby city of Kut.
In the bloodiest incident, a suicide bomber wearing a vest laden with explosives and another driving a car killed at least 13 people and wounded 40 in a marketplace in al-Suwayra, 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Baghdad, said Majid Askar, an official with the Wasit provincial council.
Yusufiya:
#1: A minivan parked in front of council offices damaged the building but caused no casualties in a section of Yusufiya, 20 km (12 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.
Mussayab:
#1: A roadside bomb went off in a market, wounding three people near Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, the spokesman of the local government said.
Abu Ghraib:
#1: A car bomb in a market killed two people and wounded 12 in the district of Abu Ghraib, in western Baghdad, police said.
#2: A roadside bomb killed two people in Abu Ghraib, police said.
#3: A bomb destroyed a house, killing the owner, in Abu Ghraib, police said.
Tarmiyah:
#1: And in Tarmiyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Baghdad, city Mayor Mohammed Jassam was injured when bombs in parked cars targeted his convoy. In all, five people were killed and 18.
The car bomb in Tarmiya targeted the convoy of the local mayor, officials said.
Samarra:
#1: Four policemen were wounded on Monday when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in western Samaraa city. “One of the injuries is a police lieutenant,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He noted that the blast left damage in the patrol’s vehicle.
Balad:
#1: Unknown gunmen detonated the house of a Sahwa (Awakening) fighter in Balad, south of Tikrit city, without causing casualties. “The house was totally destroyed,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Mosul:
#1: Meanwhile in the outskirts of the northern city of Mosul, at least two people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a checkpoint, according to Iraqi army colonel Rebwar Younis.
At least two Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed and three wounded when a suicide bomber in a car drove into a checkpoint manned by U.S., Iraqi and Kurdish forces east of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
#2: Gunmen in a car shot dead a student in front of his house in northern Mosul, police said.
#3: Gunmen attacked a carpenter's family, killing him and his son and seriously wounding two female members of his family, on Sunday in western Mosul, police said.
Tal Afar:
#1: Police found two unidentified bodies in separate areas of Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: In the former al Qaeda stronghold of Anbar province, five bombs went off at dawn outside the homes of police officers, killing two people in the city of Falluja and two in a village 20 km (12 miles) east of Falluja, police said.
Three civilians were killed on Monday and seven others were wounded when unknown gunmen detonated four houses belonging to security elements in central Falluja city.
Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A rocket fired by insurgents hit a home in Marjah district of the southern province of Helmand on Sunday, killing four members of the same family, provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi said.
#2: In a separate incident, two children were killed and one injured Sunday by a roadside bomb in neighbouring Nad Ali district (Helmand Prv.), Ahmadi said, blaming Taliban militants for the attack.
#3: Also on Sunday, four policemen were killed and two others wounded by a roadside explosion in Gerishk district of the same province (Helmand Prv.), the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
#4: US and Afghan soldiers engaged the militants for a full day on Saturday in the western district of Shindand, the commander of Afghan army commando forces in Afghanistan told AFP. “We together with US Marines launched an operation against insurgents as a result of which 10 Taliban were killed,” said Zainudin Sharifi. Maj Zainudin Sharifi, the commander of the Afghan National Army’s rapid-response team in Herat province, said the fighting occurred Saturday in Zerko, a Taliban area of Shindand district. Sharifi said members of the defense force, hired by the Afghan Interior Ministry, came under fire when they were investigating tips that suicide bombers were planning to attack a coalition outpost. Four were captured and beheaded.
#5: Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has a military base in Shindand, part of the relatively peaceful province of Herat, which shares a long border with Iran. Sharifi did not say when the insurgents had captured and beheaded the four Afghan guards or provide any other details.
#6: Meanwhile, four members of a community defense force protecting villagers in Afghanistan were beheaded by militants in a weekend battle, an Afghan army official said on Sunday.
#7: A roadside bomb struck a car Monday in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two civilians a day after an insurgent rocket killed four other civilians, authorities said. Monday's bombing happened in Zabul province, said Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
#8: Four Afghan policemen were killed and two wounded when their vehicle struck a homemade bomb in the Gereshk district of southern Helmand province on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.
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