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The search for a 68-year-old missing sailor from Halifax resumed Sunday and officials say there is reason to be optimistic after another vessel that made the same trip arrived safely in Bermuda Saturday. A Cape Breton man is recovering from...

That I would have to say is a lot more than a little optimistic don't you think? President Karzai's inauguration audience reflected the concern coming from the whole international community. 17 NATO foreign ministers were there including U.S. Secretary of...

Five Afghan border policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan Sunday, a police official said. The explosion happened in Spin Boldak, a district in the volatile province of Kandahar bordering Pakistan, said General Abdul Raziq, the...

Despite conflicting casualty reports, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zamary Bashary confirmed that four people were injured in the rocket attack near a luxury hotel in the center of the capital Kabul. Bashary added that two women and one Afghan police...

To others, supporting the country’s hotch-potch of tribal militias is a sure-fire way of recreating the violence and anarchy that brought the Taleban to power in the first place. The Community Defence Initiative is the latest euphemism for a controversial...

One wonders what sort of escalation could take place in the middle of an Afghan winter. Usually conflict dies down until the Spring. Many areas where the Taliban are entrenched will be inaccessible. Also, if there is going to be...

Time for truth about torture After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vital One man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin...

The latest Iraq revelations in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph come as the Guardian is told how the failings in post-war planning may constitute grounds to prosecute for breach of the Geneva convention. In any other context, such suggestions would constitute political...

Twelve of the 13 casualties in the Fort Hood massacre were soldiers. But were they combatants, and was an Army post in the middle of Texas a combat zone? If the answer is yes – as many Texas lawmakers say...

The military announced Saturday that Canadian troops had moved into the northern limits of Nakhonay, a town of around 2,000 people in the heart of the volatile Panjwaii district. Continued Below This marked a new phase of an operation dubbed...