News Source: Gulf News
| 4 months ago
Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal says the government has no control in three Helmand districts on the northern end of the province and two in the south. Thousands of US Marines arrived in Helmand last month to help British forces already stationed there...
News Source: Hindustan times
| 4 months ago
Thousands of mostly US troops are moving in to secure the polls and to reinforce the turbulent south, a Taliban stronghold, but regional US commander General David Petraeus has warned of "tough months ahead." Petraeus said on Thursday that the past...
News Source: ITN
| 4 months ago
An officer killed in action in southern Afghanistan on Friday was a "wonderful, loving son", his family has said...Mr Mervis's family said: "Paul was a wonderful, loving son, brother and friend â" generous and thoughtful, with an infectious sense...
News Source: Times Online
| 4 months ago
Afghanistan last week was trying to help colleagues trapped in a hail of rocket and machinegun fire, commanders said yesterday. Private Robert McLaren, 20, from Kintra on the Isle of Mull, only finished training in April but had already proved he had...