Four italian soldiers died and a fifth was wounded during an anbush after 9:45 (7:45 in Italy) against a convoy of sixties italian vehicles that was going toward Gulistan valley, in Farah Province, to transport material necessary to build an advanced base. Victims are all alpini. The umpteenth attack against italian contingent has reopened the debate on participation at Isaf mission and on possible exit strategy.

Defence Ministry, Ignazio La Russa, has explained in a press conference as the same convoy was already attacked - without consequences - on Friday, he said also names of victims of Afghanistan attack. Caporal Gianmarco Manca, 32 years old, of Alghero (Sassari); Caporal Marco Pedone, 23 years old of Gagliano del Capo (Lecce); Caporal Sebastiano Ville, born in Lentini (Siracusa) on 1983M Caporal Francesco Vannozzi, born in Pisa on 1984. Wounded soldier is Luca Cornacchia, 31 years old, native in Pescina (L’Aquila). Soldiers belonged at seventh regiment of alpini in Belluno, assigned Julia brigade.

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They died when two missiles from a suspected CIA pilotless aircraft struck a mosque in Mirali in North Waziristan, the officials added.

The attack came a day after the United States and Britain warned of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe. Western security officials said last week they believed a group in northern Pakistan were connected to a plot to stage attacks.

The militants were members of a group called Jihad Islami, the Pakistani intelligence officials said without elaborating. There was no independent verification and militants often dismiss official reports of successful operations against them.

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Al-Qaeda’s operational chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan’s lawless tribal border areas, Pakistani security officials said Tuesday.

A covert American drone campaign has recently ramped up attacks on Al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in the region as part of efforts to bring an end to a nine-year war in Afghanistan so that US troops can return home.

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It’s about thirty islamic insurgents the balance of a air raid made Saturday by some American Apache helicopter gunships in a tribal area of Pakistan.

Today according militar american medias at pakistan website ‘Dawn’, the attack is occurred in Nazirah, at eight kilometers by Afghanistan border.

In that area is operating islamic group lead by Jalaluddin Haqqani, that fights against Nato forces present in afghan territory.

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Twenty-three Tajik soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack by “Islamist terrorists” in the east of the Central Asian country, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP.

“Twenty-three defence ministry troops are dead and another 10 were wounded in a terrorist attack committed in the afternoon in the east of Tajikistan,” said spokesman Faridun Makhmadaliyev.

“The attack was committed by two groups of Islamist terrorists,” he added.

A Tajik military source said earlier that a military convoy had been attacked in the mountainous Racht valley, some 250 kilometres east of the capital Dushanbe, as it was trying to reach an observation post.

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