Canadian military gear stranded in Afghanistan
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 12:30:58 -0700 | political-news
ET Canadians soldiers load baggage at Kandahar airbase in 2011. Hundreds of shipping containers filled with military supplies remain stranded in Afghanistan. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press) A team of 15 Canadian soldiers has been dispatched to Kandahar on a month-long assignment...
Cannes: 'World War Z' With Brad Pitt to Open Moscow Film Festival
Source: Hollywood Reporter Film
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 02:23:39 -0700 | entertainment-news
Paramount Pictures The 35th edition of the event also unveiled the first 10 competition titles. Marc Forster 's World War Z , starring Brad Pitt , will open the 35th annual Moscow Film Festival on June 20, organizers said here...
Police Officers Are Targets in Wave of Afghan Violence
Source: Newyork Times
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 09:18:54 -0700 | travel-news
Two gunmen on motorcycles in the Khaki Safed district of Farah Province, in western Afghanistan, killed the police official, Abdul Ghani, in front of his home on Friday night, apparently as retribution for a crackdown on the Taliban that killed...
Two dead, 13 injured in Afghanistan roadside bombs
Source: United Press International
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 17:32:44 -0700 | travel-news
Two people died and at least 13 were injured Saturday in two separate roadside bomb explosions in Afghanistan, police said. An explosion in Khost city killed an Afghan border police guard and injured three others, as well as six civilians,...
Soldier, Kansas native, drowns in Afghanistan
Source: Kansas.com
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-17 09:54:04 -0700 | travel-news
A soldier who grew up in the western Kansas town of Oakley died this week in Afghanistan after drowning while attempting to cross a body of water during combat operations, the defense department announced Friday...He had previously served a tour...
VIDEO: Benjo music plays again in Kandahar
Source: BBC
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-15 09:07:56 -0700 | entertainment-news
Music scene blossoms in former Taliban stronghold 15 May 2013 Last updated at 11:56 ET All forms of music were banned from social gatherings, TV, and radio while the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan from the mid-90's until 2001....
Headlines for May 15, 2013
Source: Democracy Now
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-15 18:44:45 -0700 | political-news
You can choose another option on the listen/watch page if you prefer. download: Holder Defends Monitoring of AP Phone Records Attorney General Eric Holder is defending the Justice Department's seizure of the work, home and cellphone records used by almost...
Four U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan's Kandahar
Source: Denver Post
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-14 11:43:43 -0700 | travel-news
The soldiers were in a vehicle on patrol in Kandahar's Zhari district when they were killed, provincial spokesman Jawid Ahmad Faisal said...President Barack Obama will announce how many combat troops the United States will leave after the withdrawal, Secretary of...
Poway soldier survives 6 IED blasts, wins Bronze Star
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-13 17:13:26 -0700 | political-news
Charles Preiss was about one week into his deployment to Afghanistan last year when he survived his first improvised explosive device blast. Then, the 25-year-old Poway resident came away unscathed from a second...Before he came home in November, after nearly...
Bomb blast kills 10 Afghan civilians
Source: BBC
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-13 14:40:36 -0700 | travel-news
Kandahar bomb blast kills 10 Afghan civilians A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 civilians, including women and children, police say. The vehicle the victims were travelling in hit an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kandahar...
Medics train Afghans to treat their own in war zone
Source: The Washington Times
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-12 19:58:44 -0700 | health-news
Amid the unrelenting sun and ubiquitous sand of Helmand province, U.S. and Afghan forces last week unpacked bandages, scalpels and operating tables the makings of the region's first mobile surgical unit for Afghan medics to treat their wounded soldiers.
Defence reveals details of major battle
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-09 03:10:27 -0700 | travel-news
Taliban machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, Australian special forces soldiers were pinned down in the Afghanistan dust and, in the words of their commander, "digging holes with their eyelids"...Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith - whose charge directly at Taliban machine guns earned...
Fallen Meridian soldier's remains return to U.S.
Source: The Idaho Statesman
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-08 09:05:10 -0700 | travel-news
Army carry team transferred a flag-draped case containing the remains of Spc...Department of Defense, Murach, 22, of Meridian, died May 4 of injuries from a roadside bomb that struck his vehicle in the Maiwand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
Afghans stage anti-Pakistan protest
Source: The Boston Globe
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-07 05:54:52 -0700 | political-news
Afghanistan (AP) Hundreds of Afghans have held a rally to protest the latest incidents along their country's border with Pakistan, blaming the neighboring nation for the spate of shootouts near the boundary. At a demonstration in southern Kandahar city on...
The CIA's rogue operations
Source: War In Context
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-02 10:47:46 -0700 | disasters-news
In a 2003 conversation, the most renowned commander of anti-Soviet resistance fighters in southern Afghanistan, where I lived at the time, told me that in the late 1980s Karzai introduced him to CIA officials so he could obtain some of...
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