And PROOF the AmeriKan MSM is either LYING or COVERING UP vital news and information.
"Taliban militants captured a remote district.... there are a handful in the southern province of Helmand that security forces admit are in rebel control."
I guess this is why Afghanistan failed to make an appearance in my War Daily, and why so much shit did!
"US-led soldier among scores killed, Afghan district falls
KABUL (AFP) — An international soldier, eight security workers and dozens of rebels were killed in new attacks in Afghanistan while Taliban militants captured a remote district, authorities said Monday.
The soldier, who was with the US-led coalition helping Afghanistan to fight the insurgency, died Monday after being wounded in a bomb explosion in the southern province of Helmand at the weekend, the force said in a statement.
The death took to 138 the number of international soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year, mostly in hostile action. Nearly 220 foreign soldiers died in violence last year.
Four police officers and four security guards escorting a convoy of civilian trucks carrying supplies for foreign troops were killed in separate attacks in southern Helmand and Zabul provinces, officials said.
Security forces launched a counterattack and killed 15 rebels, provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal said, citing information from local residents who saw the bodies on the site near the Helmand capital Lashkar Gah.
"Villagers reported to us that they saw 15 Taliban bodies," he said. The claim could not be independently verified.
About 20 other Taliban rebels were killed overnight when international helicopters attacked them in the eastern province of Khost, local government spokesman Khaibar Pashtun told AFP.
The choppers were called in after the rebels ambushed a police convoy, killing a policeman, Pashtun said.
Elsewhere in Khost, an Afghan driver was killed when militants attacked a convoy supplying a foreign military base there, a police official said.
The NATO-led military force in Afghanistan announced late Sunday that one of its troopers had been killed in the same province.
A dozen civilians were meanwhile wounded when NATO-led troops pounded Taliban positions near a residential area in the eastern province of Kunar, provincial governor Abdul Jalal Jalal told AFP.
The troops had responded to a Taliban attack on one of their outposts in the restive province, he added.
Dozens of Taliban militants meanwhile captured a remote district in central Ghazni province overnight, killing one policeman and injuring two others, a government spokesman said.
Local security forces had fled the centre of Ajiristan district, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) southwest of Kabul, the interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.
"Security forces abandoned the district centre after Taliban attacked. They withdrew under lots of pressure," he said. "We're working on a plan to retake the district."
Ajiristan was captured by Taliban insurgents in October last year. It was retaken the following day when about 300 security forces moved into the small district centre.
The Taliban have captured several mainly remote districts in the past but have not been able to hold them for long, although there are a handful in the southern province of Helmand that security forces admit are in rebel control.
I'll be back-filling most of the rest of my posts, as I have reached the end of the chain.
