News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
The Guardian , Thursday September 4 2008 The Kajaki dam is a monument to failed foreign dreams in Afghanistan. It was built by the Americans in the early 1950s as a cold war showcase, the sort of mega-scheme that was supposed to modernise the...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
The deadly incident comes two days after a teenage suicide bomber launched an attack in Tarmiya that badly wounded Imad al-Mashhadani, the head of the town's Awakening Council. Awakening Councils are predominantly Sunni fighters supported by the...
News Source: China News
| about 1 year ago
Afghan troops backed by the international forces killed and injured 15 suspected Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's southern provinces of Uruzgan and Helmand, Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. "The operation occurred in Deh...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
ET The Associated Press A U.S. United Nations and Afghan allegations that U.S.-led coalition forces killed dozens of civilians in an August attack found Tuesday that seven of the dead were civilians. An Afghan government commission concluded that 90...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
A sailor killed in Afghanistan on Saturday was the 500th U.S. service member to die in that country since the war there began in 2001. Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Harris of Lexington, North Carolina, was 36. Twenty-two U.S. service members were...
News Source: Afgha.com
| about 1 year ago
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Nato-led troops have accidentally killed three children in south-eastern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has said. An Isaf patrol used artillery rounds to return fire after it...