(For more on Afghanistan, click [ID:nAFPAK]) Nov 10 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1300 GMT on Tuesday. * indicates new or updated items. PAKTIKA - Two civilians were killed and 13 wounded when a rocket hit a house while Afghan and NATO forces were fighting insurgents in southeastern Paktika province's Yahya Khil district, said Hamidullah Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor. He said the rocket was fired by the Taliban. * KANDAHAR - Afghan police and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops seized 500,000 lb (227,000 kg) of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, along with 5,000 bomb components, and arrested 15 people in a warehouse raid in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday, ISAF said in a statement. Ammonium nitrate is illegal in Afghanistan and is used in most homemade bombs in the country, it said. * SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - A U.S. service member was killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan, ISAF said. It gave no further details. SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN - One ISAF service member was killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan within the previous 24 hours, the alliance said late on Monday. It gave no further details. (Compiled by Kabul bureau; Editing by Paul Tait) (For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/afghanistanpakistan)
The shadow of U.S. Army Lieutenant Matthew Asmus of A-BTRY 2/377 PFAR Task Force Steel playing golf is cast at FOB Tillman, Afghanistan, November 10, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT MILITARY ...
