2,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan

At this symbolic level reached Wednesday, will add 16,402 wounded since the conflict began in late 2001. The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan has reached 2000, after nearly eleven years of war and the death Wednesday of a Marine Corporal in 21 years of fighting with the Taliban, according to Pentagon data consulted Thursday. The independent website icasualties.org, which compiles data on the soldiers killed during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which began in October 2001, mentions his side 2,008 American dead. Of the 2000 deaths identified by the Pentagon, 1,577 were killed in action and 34 are women. Some 16,402 soldiers were also wounded during the conflict. More than 150 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the year. The U.S. military has experienced its biggest losses in 2010 with 499 deaths, against 414 in 2011. More than 90,000 U.S. troops are currently deployed in Afghanistan.This figure should be reduced to 68,000 by the end of the summer thanks to the withdrawal of reinforcements decided by President Barack Obama in 2009. Approximately 40,000 men of the international coalition led by NATO are also fighting in Afghanistan. At least 1,039 NATO soldiers have been killed since the conflict began in Afghanistan, including 418 British and 87 French. NATO will transfer responsibility for security to the 352,000 men of Afghan forces by mid-2013 and increase to a supporting role until the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan in late 2014. Losses of U.S. in Afghanistan are far from equaling those known in Iraq: some 4,475 U.S. troops were killed and 32,228 injured between 2003 and 2010, according to Pentagon data.

Deadly clashes in Yemen between the army and Al-Qaeda

A bombing killed several civilians near the town of Zinjibar focus around which the fighting. Six civilians were killed Thursday in an air strike on a Yemeni southern city where the network is cut off Al-Qaeda, while eight fighters and two soldiers were killed in clashes, according to military sources and a local . A military source said six civilians - a man, three women and two children - were killed " by mistake "during a bombardment by aircraft of the coastal town of Chuqra, in the province of Abyan. A family member of victims, reached by telephone by AFP, confirmed this assessment, stating that aviation had targeted houses sheet. The Al-Qaeda fighters are holed up in Chuqra, encircled by the army since taking Tuesday by the army of neighboring cities of Zinjibar, capital of the province of Abyan, and Jaar. Two soldiers were killed and eleven wounded, and eight al Qaeda fighters were killed in fighting with automatic weapons before dawn in the city, according to a local official. The army had launched May 12 a massive offensive that allowed him to regain control of Zinjibar Jaar and held for nearly a year by the "Supporters of Sharia", which operates under the name Al-Qaeda in the south Yemen. Wednesday, nine people were killed in Zinjibar the explosion of mines left behind by Al-Qaeda, then they went home to inspect their homes, according to another local official. Since the beginning of the army offensive in the south against al-Qaeda, 540 people were killed, according to a report compiled by AFP from different sources: 402 members of Al Qaeda, 78 soldiers, 26 auxiliaries of the military and 34 civilians. Many residents of Zinjibar, who fled en masse after its takeover by the network in May 2011, returned after his release to find their homes destroyed. " Zinjibar is a ghost town and the streets are full of mines. We can not return to these conditions, especially as water supply and electric power was not restored , "said Salmi Bawazir to AFP, a resident of the city fled to Aden, returned to find his house destroyed. A Jaar, people have released twenty people, including imams of mosques, which were held in a house in the city by al-Qaeda fighters for standing up to the network, according to witnesses. Al-Qaeda had taken advantage of the weakening of central power in favor of the popular uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011 to strengthen its grip on many parts of eastern and southern Yemen. President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi has committed since his election in February to fight al-Qaeda.

China forced abortion photos on the internet

The photo of a Chinese woman forced to abort the seventh month of pregnancy, disseminated on the Internet, has provoked strong reactions in China and has reignited the controversy over the one-child law. The woman, Jiamei Feng, 27, appears in his sleep next to the aborted fetus and covered with blood. The fault of Feng and her husband had to have already 'a 5 year old daughter. Local officials, after having threatened to astronomical fines, have taken home and taken to hospital to have an abortion.