America's North Shore Journal

An Afghan and international security force searched a compound in Kunduz Province, Sept. 12 seeking Taliban facilitators and commanders responsible for attacks on Afghan citizens and for aiding the flow of money, foreign fighters and suicide bombers into the region. The joint force searched the compound near the village of Torbah Kash, northeast of Kunduz City, after receiving intelligence reports indicating militant activity. During the operation, an element of the force pursued a number of insurgents, who fled from the targeted compound. Force members quickly caught them. Joint security force members received hostile fire, returned fire and killed a number of militants. Militants were armed with machine guns and rifles. North of the compound, the force found a vehicle that contained one anti-personnel mine, improvised explosive-device-making material, multiple rocket-propelled grenade systems and one … Read entire article »