News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
Mohammad Sami Yowar, a spokesman for the Kunduz governor, said British special forces dropped down from helicopters early Wednesday onto the house where the two were being kept, and a gunbattle ensued. A Taliban commander who was in the house was...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 2 months ago
A New York Times journalist held by the Taliban in Afghanistan was freed Wednesday during a dramatic airborne raid by foreign commandos in which his Afghan colleague was shot dead, the newspaper said...Farrell and Munadi were the second team from The...
News Source: Sify News
| 2 months ago
British journalist Stephen Farrell, who was working for the New York Times when he was kidnapped in Afghanistan four days ago, has been rescued by a team of US special forces. Farrell and his colleague Sultan Munadi went missing on Saturday from...
News Source: BBC
| 2 months ago
He died in a firefight with the Taliban during the operation to free New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell...Mr Farrell, who holds British and Irish nationality, was "extracted" by "a lot of soldiers", the New York Times said. Journalist Sultan...
News Source: BBC
| 2 months ago
He died in a firefight with the Taliban during the operation to free New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell...Farrell, who holds dual British-Irish nationality, was "extracted" by "a lot of soldiers", the New York Times said. His Afghan interpreter...
News Source: The independent
| 2 months ago
A British commando was killed during an operation to free a journalist who had been kidnapped in Afghanistan, it was reported today. Stephen Farrell, a reporter with the New York Times who holds dual British and Irish citizenship, was successfully...