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The hidden beauty parlour of Helmand
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 days ago
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Pamela Anderson and Afghanistan's most dangerous, conservative province might not at first glance seem to have much in common. But step into a busy, cramped room in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province, and there she is: blonde locks, wide darkly...
Tags: Helmand, Lashkar Gah, radio stations, PRT, international troops, Taliban, Afghanistan Human Rights Organisation, beauty parlour, radio shows, ins helmand, Afghanistan, Kabul, Helmand Province, War in Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, Foreign relations of Afghanistan, Islamism
Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghnistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 days ago
Credibility After studying counter-insurgency methods employed from the Boer war to the conflict in Iraq, British commanders are drawing up plans for “gated communities” from which the enemy can be excluded by identity checks. The checks may involve fingerprints,...
Tags: biometric tests, James Cowan, Afghanistan, control access, Helmand, Kabul, Counter-insurgency, Helmand Province, Military operations of the War in Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, War in Afghanistan, Taliban, War Conflict
UN relocates Afghanistan staff to secure housing
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 17 days ago
Credibility Afghanistan — The Taliban scored another propaganda victory Thursday when the UN decided to relocate more than half of its foreign workers from Afghanistan because it had become too dangerous for them to continue to work there. The announcement of "short-term...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, Mr Brown, Helmand, prime minister, Britain, helmand province, U.N., public support, British Ministry of Defense
SAS join search in Helmand for gunman who killed five soldiers
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 18 days ago
Credibility A full-scale manhunt involving British special forces and Afghan police units is under way in Helmand to try to find the gunman responsible for shooting dead five soldiers in Nad-e Ali. Tributes to the soldiers murdered by an Afghan police officer poured...
Tags: Helmand
Afghanistan's Abdullah calls Karzai confirmation 'illegal'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 18 days ago
Credibility Afghanistan's main opposition leader bowed out of the presidential contest peacefully – and even urged supporters not to protest...In a press conference Wednesday, three days since dropping out of the race, Abdullah Abdullah questioned the legitimacy...
Tags: Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Mr Karzai, Mr. Karzai, Helmand, Mr Abdullah, U.S
PM 'refused more Afghan troops'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility General Sir Richard Dannatt, who stepped down from his post in August, castigated Downing Street for not giving enough support in terms of men and equipment to the increasingly troubled western war effort in Afghanistan, in an interview in the Sun. An...
Tags: Afghanistan, Nuristan, Richard Dannatt, US Army, Helmand, U.S, taliban militants, troop killing, sir richard, nuristan province
Vote recount underway in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility On Friday, the Electoral Complaints Commission began looking into the returns from 10 percent of the 3,063 polling stations suspected of vote rigging. The suspicious polling stations are said to have either hosted more than their expected share of the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Helmand, U.N., poll stations, AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, southern afghanistan
NATO service member killed in southern Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility The soldier, who has not been named, was shot Sunday while patrolling in Babaji district of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, Britain's defense ministry said. The soldier's death brings to 214 the number of British military personnel killed in...
Tags: Afghanistan, Helmand, helmand province, foot patrolling, greatest man, Kabul
Bottom falling out of Afghan opium market: UN
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility KABUL: Opium production in Afghanistan has fallen for a second year running with poppy cultivation down 22 percent and prices among the lowest in a decade, a UN report said Wednesday. The destitute country produces around 90 percent of the world's opium,...
Tags: Afghanistan, afghans opium, Taliban, opium production, helmand province, opium market, Helmand, poppy field, poppy cultivation
'Sharp drop' in Afghan opium crop
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says opium cultivation has fallen by 22% in a year and production by 10%, with the biggest fall in Helmand province. But the figures are still higher than three years ago, when British troops began fighting Taliban militants...
Tags: Afghanistan, U.N., poppy cultivation, Helmand, opium production
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