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Four US soldiers die in Afghanistan
Kunar :: Afghanistan | about 3 hours ago
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Three of the Americans were said by Nato to have died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and the other in the east in a bomb explosion on Monday. Three Afghan soldiers were also killed in a separate incident on Sunday by a roadside bomb in Helmand province.
Tags: Afghanistan, southern afghanistan, roadside bomb, Kunar, War in Afghanistan, Helmand Province, Musa Qala District, Musa Qala, International Security Assistance Force, NATO, War Conflict, Afghan National Army, Military of Afghanistan, Politics
Military Analysis: In 3 Tacks for Escalating Afghan War, a Game of Trade-Offs
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 10 hours ago
Credibility If Mr. Obama limited any additional American troops to 10,000 to 15,000, the military would deploy them largely as trainers, with some reinforcements likely in the southern province of Kandahar, the Taliban’s spiritual home. The neighboring, and opium-rich,...
Tags: Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Mr. Obama, Pakistani, NATO, military analysts, United States, americans troop, additional troop, analysts say, Kandahar, Taliban, Helmand Province, International Security Assistance Force, War in Afghanistan, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Politics
Crowning of a Crony President
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The degeneracy of a poltical system is manifest in the exigent way this most mind boggling anti- democratic feat was surmounted with the explicit blessing of America. If this is the color of the democracy America wants the occupied lands to paint with,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, president hamid, afghans ministers, Kabul, War in Afghanistan, Politics, Law Crime, Asif Ali Zardari, Pashtun people, Taliban, International Security Assistance Force, War Conflict, Stanley A. McChrystal, Inter-Services Intelligence, Minister of Borders & Tribal Affairs, Karzai, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, Military of Afghanistan, Counter-insurgency, Insurgency, Islamic terrorism, British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since, Helmand Province
Human rights mess goes beyond Tories
Halifax :: Canada | about 19 hours ago
Credibility Montreal S tephen Harper's Conservatives did not initiate the culture of casual indifference to Canada's legal humanitarian obligations that has surfaced periodically in the national capital over the past decade, although they did reinforce it. After...
Tags: Canada, Afghanistan, Richard Colvin, Mr. Colvin, afghans prisoners, Halifax, Loya jirga, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Anti-communism, NATO, War in Afghanistan, Politics, War Conflict, Abousfian Abdelrazik, 39th Canadian Parliament, Liberal Party of Canada, Canadian response to Omar Khadr, Stephen Harper, Maher Arar, Omar Khadr, Kandahar, Military history of Canada, Gordon O'Connor, Taliban, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Amir Attaran, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Year of birth uncertain, Islamic terrorism, Islamism
Fallen soldiers honoured as they return home
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility The town has paid its respects to Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman Jimmy Major, 18, from the Grenadier Guards, who lost their lives alongside three other soldiers in Afghanistan earlier this month. Under cloudy skies and drizzling rain relatives...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, Taliban, Wootton Bassett, War in Afghanistan, Helmand Province, Human Interest, War Conflict
Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's same story in so many ways
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility Rick Hillier, Canada's former chief of defence staff, says Afghanistan can't be compared to 1990s Somalia scandal. R ick Hillier, one of the powerful figures at the epicentre of the prisoner torture storm, has a revealing quirk. Question what happened...
Tags: Rick Hillier, Canada, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ottawa, Taliban insurgency, Taliban, Battle of Dahaneh, Helmand Province, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Human rights in Afghanistan, Hillier, Least Developed Countries, Human rights abuses, Politics
Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 days ago
Credibility Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives...Do you know what we can do to you?'" Khan was contracted to build one of the final links of a $2.5 billion highway...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, Khan, Iranian Plateau, Taliban, War in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Amir Muhammad Akhundzada, Year of birth missing, Sher Mohammad Akhundzada, Helmand Province, War Conflict, Afghan National Police, Kandahar, Insurgency, Islamism
In a Chilly London November, War and Remembrance
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t Op-Ed In Great Britain, Remembrance Sunday falls on the second Sunday of November, the one closest to November 11, the anniversary of the end of the First World War in 1918...As coincidence and travel itineraries would...
Tags: Gordon Brown, British, world war, Albert, Afghanistan, London, prime minister, Joey, United Kingdom, War in Afghanistan, Remembrance Sunday, Helmand Province, Armistice Day, Remembrance days, British culture, Holidays in Canada
Afghan war claims another UK troop
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
Credibility The ministry said on Wednesday that the soldier was killed during operations in the Babaji area in Helmand province. Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, a spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said, "It is with deep sadness I must inform you that a soldier...
Tags: Afghanistan, Helmand Province, David Wakefield, Babaji, Task Force Helmand, babaji area, gun battle, The Royal Military Police, soldiers killed, Kabul, Coalition casualties in Helmand and Kandahar, Operation Panther's Claw, Politics, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Taliban, Helmand province campaign, Hamid Karzai, Coalition casualties in Afghanistan, British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since, Law Crime, English law, Coroner, Pathology, Inquest, Philippson, Civil procedure, Surnames, Death, Andrew Walker (actor)
Like it or not, Browns a war leader
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
Credibility Published 19 November 2009 Public patience with the Afghanistan war is running out. Brown may yet regret becoming a war leader Is there a more agonising decision for a British premier to make than to send troops into harm's way?
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrats, Gordon Brown, War in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, David Miliband, Politics, War Conflict, Helmand Province, Human rights abuses, Human rights in Afghanistan, Afghan insurgency, Islamic terrorism, Taliban, Soviet Armed Forces, Afghan National Army, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Pashtun people, Iranian Plateau, Indian embassy bombing in Kabul
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