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Two diggers wounded in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 29 days ago
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Australians and an Afghan, have been wounded in an insurgent ambush in southern Afghanistan. A joint patrol of members of the Afghan National Army and Australian instructors was hit by an improvised bomb on Monday. The attackers followed up the explosion...
Dozens of militants killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Afghan and international security forces have killed about 60 militants in days of fighting in southern and eastern Afghanistan, the government and the US-led coalition said Saturday. More than 30 were killed in clashes from Wednesday to Friday in the...
Tags: Afghanistan, led coalition, militants killed, coalition forcing, Taliban, Kabul, small arms
Strong Link: Child Soldiers & Trade In Small Arms
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility For $5 one can find a serviceable weapon in most countries in the developing world," she added, noting that it takes a child on average only 40 minutes to master an AK-47, one of the most common weapons used around the world today. The UN envoy also stressed...
Tags: small arms
'Lost' small arms aid Iraq, Afghan militants -study
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Every year hundreds of thousands of small arms go missing and many wind up in the hands of insurgents in countries like Iraq, Colombia and Afghanistan, a new survey published on Monday said. The annual report issued by the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey...
Tags: small arms, Iraq, arms survey
Santa Rosa solider killed in Afghanistan
Fort Lewis :: WA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Pentagon announced a 21-year-old soldier from Santa Rosa was killed in Afghanistan...Christopher Gathercole died Monday after being injured by small arms fire during combat in Ghazni. He had been assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment,...
Tags: Ranger Regiment, Fort Lewis, Ghazni, Santa Rosa, 75th ranger, small arms, 2nd battalion
NATO hosts conference on global threat by small arms, light weapons
Brussels :: Belgium | about 1 year ago
Credibility The meeting, co-sponsored by the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council countries and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, focuses on strengthening the role of regional organizations in addressing the threat. Approximately 100 experts representing...
Tags: small arms
Small arms from Bosnia not only killing local people, smuggled via the US gov't to Iraq and other warzones.
The 1995 Dayton Peace Accord, designed by the International Community, which ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, included a strong focus on the destruction of small arms and light weapons left over in the country. 13 years later thousands of children...
Tags: Bosnia, small arms, arms, USA, illegal, smuggling, UNDP, Amnesty, Dayton, Iraq, Baharia Kachapor, exporting, NATO, embargo, U.S.
Dakar OIC summit to discuss anti-Muslim sentiment
Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Leaders of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) are meeting in Dakar for a two-day summit on Thursday during which they plan to discuss expressions of anti-Muslim sentiments in the West. The organization also wants to alter its charter
Tags: Islamophobia, Organisation of Islamic Conference, Islamic Conference Summit Opens, Senegal, Dakar, small arms, Muslim, Sudan, Ban Ki-moon, China
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