The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, announced it had begun an operation along with Afghan National Army troops to retake the town in the southern province of Helmand.
The foreign troops were searching for two cars they had been told were packed with explosives and were going to be used in a car bomb attack on the United States Embassy in Kabul, according to a statement from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF.
An official with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, confirmed that the airstrike killed one civilian and wounded two others.
The NATO official also did not disclose what members of NATO's Afghanistan force, the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, have done to support the talks beyond offering safe passage to insurgents participating in the discussions.
Drones were used for lethal strikes in Afghanistan but only where UK or ISAF forces were threatened by fighters on the ground.
In RC-South, the number and lethality of IED attacks is up dramatically; significantly, in some areas the number of IEDs reported by the public to ANSF or ISAF forces is also up, reflecting public support for the Government.
The official declined to describe specifically what members of NATO's Afghanistan force, known as the International Security Assistance Force or ISAF, have done to support the talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, except to note a broad category of granting safe passage to insurgent leaders who agree to the talks.
Lt. Gen. Nick Carter, the deputy commander of the coalition forces, known as the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, commended the Afghan Army's performance in Sangin, but acknowledged that it was a real fight.
The soldier for the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as the NATO force in Afghanistan is called, was killed by a gunfire at the end of an operation in Musa Qala, a mountainous region known for its poppy growing and Taliban sympathies, NATO said.
By this point last year, Afghan soldiers had killed 27 of their coalition mentors in 20 separate attacks, according to the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as the coalition forces are called.
The police called for air support, and the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as the American-led coalition forces are known, responded with airstrikes and medical evacuation for the wounded, local officials said.
