Monday, June 06, 2011

My Way News - Rocket barrage kills 5 US soldiers in Baghdad
My Way News reports: "Five American soldiers died Monday when a barrage of rockets slammed into a base in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad - the largest, single-day loss of life for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years [...] the deaths of the five U.S. soldiers and 11 Iraqis killed in other attacks around the country Monday underscore the persistent dangers here."

My Way News - Pakistan minister confirms al-Qaida commander dead
My Way News reports: "Pakistan's interior minister said Monday he was '100 percent' certain that wanted al-Qaida commander Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a U.S. drone strike."

My Way News - NATO service member killed in south Afghanistan
My Way News reports: "A NATO service member was killed Monday in southern Afghanistan [...] In Sangin, where nearly a third of all British Afghan war casualties have taken place, Taliban insurgent commanders have retrenched and are answering U.S. Marines' latest offensives with stiff resistance [...] More than 200 NATO troops have died this year in Afghanistan, many of them in the southern provinces along the Pakistani border and the Taliban's redoubts."

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