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Slain Canadian soldier begins journey home
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
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Canadian not on duty at the sprawling Afghanistan airfield. The 24-year old Calgarian was less than one week into his tour in Afghanistan when he stepped on a homemade landmine Friday while on a foot patrol southwest of Kandahar City. He was the second...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar City, canadians soldiers, Sapper Steven Marshall, IED, foot patrol, soldiers kills
Fort Lewis service for Afghanistan casualty
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Fort Lewis is holding a memorial service Wednesday for a soldier killed Oct. 17 in Afghanistan...Dahl of Moreno Valley, Calif., was fatally injured by a roadside bomb. He was a member of the 5th Stryker brigade that was deployed to Afghanistan in July....
Tags: Afghanistan, Fort Lewis MP, soldiers kills
Roadside bomb kills four Fort Carson soldiers in Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility The soldiers killed Thursday in Kandahar province were assigned to patrol routes to find and destroy bombs, according to the Department of Defense...Eight other Fort Carson soldiers were killed in a gun battle to defend two remote mountain outposts near...
Tags: U.S. Afghanistan, soldiers kills, Fort Lewis, Fort Carson, lewis soldiers, Defense Department
Roadside bomb kills 30 in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility The blast happened near the southern city of Kandahar, on a highway where an explosion killed three civilians on Monday. A local official blamed the Taleban for planting the devices. More than 1,500 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
Tags: soldiers kills, Afghanistan, Bellevue, Lewis, bellevue soldiers, roadside bomb, lewis soldiers, fort lewis, Kabul
Two UK soldiers killed in Helmand
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
Credibility The Ministry of Defense said Monday that the two soldiers, from the Black Watch, Third Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, were killed while on foot patrol north of Lashkar Gah District in Helmand Province. The news comes a few hours after two...
Tags: Afghanistan, Black Watch, foot patrol, Helmand Province, patrol north, Scotland, soldiers kills, Task Force Helmand, Royal Regiment, Lashkar Gah District
UK minister enters row over Afghan helicopters
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility A British government minister, stepping into one of the most contentious issues in Britain’s combat role in Afghanistan, said today that British soldiers needed more helicopters to support the effort there. But he denied he was criticising the government...
Tags: Afghanistan, Gordon Brown, Mark Malloch-Brown, Mr. Brown, Britain, 1st battalion, Taliban, Helmand Province, soldiers kills, minister gordon
Helicopter crash victims honoured at ramp ceremony
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility Afghanistan â After a tough week, this was a particularly difficult ramp ceremony even for Canadian soldiers used to the dangers of war â saying farewell to two fallen comrades at once. More than 2,000 people gathered Tuesday in the setting sun on...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar Airfield, griffon helicopter, canadians soldiers, soldiers kills, ramp ceremony, Griffon, chopper crashed, helicopter crashed
Foreign soldiers among dozens killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Four foreign soldiers and dozens of Afghans, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in two days of violence across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday. One soldier serving with the US-led coalition was killed in an insurgent attack...
Tags: Afghanistan, Task Force Helmand, Helmand Province, services member, U.S, Bagram Air Field, soldiers kills, international troops, soldiers died
Bomb kills Canadian soldier in Afghanistan
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Afghanistan–A Canadian combat engineer, described as a great guy to be around, was killed in southern Afghanistan on Sunday when one of two roadside bombs he was trying to defuse exploded...Martin Dube, 35, was the second Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan...
Tags: Afghanistan, Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Martin Dube, final journey, explosion device, soldiers kills, transport plane, civilians turned, Kandahar Airfield, improvised explosion
Nato general hails troops fighting Taliban
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
Credibility In an interview with the Financial Times, Major General Mart de Kruif, who leads Nato’s southern command, said UK forces in Helmand were “bearing the brunt” of the Taliban insurgency in the south. As a result, he said, Nato was making progress in establishing...
Tags: northern Afghanistan, U.S, afghans soldiers, Taliban, taliban insurgent, soldiers kills, Helmand
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