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AFGHANISTAN
U.S., Afghan Troops Kill 40 Fighters in East
American and Afghan troops swept through forested mountains in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 40 fighters in a hunt for insurgents responsible for an attack on a base in Nurestan province Saturday that killed eight Americans and two Afghans, the Defense Ministry said.
Ten Afghan soldiers also have been killed during operations since Monday, most of them in Kamdesh district, a ministry spokesman said.
Also Tuesday, a roadside bomb struck a NATO convoy west of Kabul, wounding two foreign soldiers, said Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, a U.S. media officer for NATO forces.
-- Associated Press
IRAQ
Bombing in Fallujah Kills 9, Hurts Dozens
A pickup truck piled with explosives blew up Tuesday in front of a restaurant frequented by Iraqi police officers near the city of Fallujah, killing nine people and wounding dozens in the second attack in as many days in western Iraq. The victims appeared to be civilians, police officers and members of the Sons of Iraq, a U.S.-backed militia that fought the insurgency in 2007 and 2008.
After the bombing, a curfew was imposed on Amiriyah, about 10 miles south of Fallujah, a city once synonymous with Iraq's insurgency that has largely quieted in recent years. Residents and police, though, have warned that violence seems to be increasing lately in Fallujah and other communities along the Euphrates River.
Unlike previous attacks, Tuesday's blast was not the work of a suicide bomber. A witness, tea-seller Mohammed al-Issawi, 27, said the assailant parked the blue truck and left about 15 minutes before the explosion.
A day earlier, a man with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up at a funeral in the town of Haditha, farther west along the Euphrates. At least six people were killed and 15 injured.
Anbar province, a vast desert bisected by the Euphrates, was once the cradle of the insurgency. But after tribes and the Sons of Iraq turned against the insurgents, the region gradually came under the control of the provincial government and the U.S. military. American soldiers have since withdrawn from all but a handful of bases.
-- Anthony Shadid
