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Afghan war claims another UK troop
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 days ago
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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)
Shot UK soldier was TA volunteer
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 days ago
Credibility Rifleman Andrew Fentiman, 23, of 7th Battalion The Rifles, died on Sunday. The soldier, from Cambridgeshire, had spent two years in East Midlands University's Officer Training Corps before joining the Territorial Army. He chose to serve with 3 Rifles...
Tags: Task Force Helmand, Afghanistan, Helmand Province, Territorial Army, Cambridgeshire, Ministry of Defence, Kabul, British Army, British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since, War in Afghanistan, Rifleman, Helmet, Forward operating base, Armour, War Conflict, Personal armour, Coalition casualties in Helmand and Kandahar, The Rifles
Warning on public Afghan support
London :: United Kingdom | 17 days ago
Credibility Public backing is "crucial" to military success in Afghanistan, a top British commander has warned as a poll suggests support for the mission is ebbing away. The survey for the BBC's Politics Show found 64% of Britons believe the war is "unwinnable",...
Tags: Afghanistan, Gordon Brown, prime minister, lord guthrie, Guthrie, Task Force Helmand, defence chiefs
Policeman kills five UK soldiers in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 20 days ago
Credibility Six UK soldiers and two Afghan police were wounded in the incident on Tuesday at a compound in the Nad-e'Ali district in southern Helmand province where British troops were training police officers. Abdul Ahad Helmanwal, the chief of the district council,...
Tags: northwest Afghanistan, Task Force Helmand, afghans police, Taliban, Kill UK Troops, police officer, BBC, Afghan National Police, Gulbuddin, Britain
Bodies Of Servicemen Returned To Britain
Wootton Bassett :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Both men had only just been deployed to Afghanistan as part of 11 Light Brigade, which is taking over as Britain's force in the country for the next six months. Their bodies will be flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire this morning. After a private repatriation...
Tags: Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Task Force Helmand, patrolling near, 1st battalion
Six Nato troops killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Six Nato troops, including a soldier from the British army, have died in separate incidents in Afghanistan , officials said today. A soldier from 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh died today following an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of...
Tags: Afghanistan, Task Force Helmand, Royal Welsh, 2nd battalion, The Ministry of Defence, soldiers died, southern afghanistan, nato troops
Two UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility A British serviceman was killed on Wednesday when he was caught in an explosion in the Gereshk district of southern province of Helmand. Another UK soldier wounded in a blast in Helmand died in a UK hospital the same day. The deaths bring to 216 the number...
Tags: Task Force Helmand, Afghanistan, U.S, 2nd battalion, gereshk district, troops killed, helmand province, uk soldiers, Gereshk, Kabul
Two UK soldiers killed in Helmand
London :: United Kingdom | 2 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
Chinook destroyed after Afghan emergency landing
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
Credibility Sources, however, said early indications suggested the Chinook was taken down by enemy action at a time of increased, pre-election, Taliban threats. The team were understood to be on a special forces’ flight unrelated to today’s voting. The helicopters...
Tags: Afghanistan, Task Force Helmand, Helmand Province, 2nd battalion, Sangin, soldiers killed, foot patrol, emergency landing, 3rd battalion, Yorkshire Regiment
Extra troops set for Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility An extra 125 servicemen and women are to be deployed to Afghanistan to replace troops who have died, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has announced. The move follows calls from commanders on the ground for more troops, as well as equipment for them...Earlier,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Task Force Helmand, Helmand Province, British, soldiers killed, southern helmand
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