Afghanistan: Past and Present /Comprised of Afghanistan, A Country Study and Country Profile: Afghanistan
The Independent (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan are at record levels and threaten to derail efforts to rebuild the war-torn country, while an unholy alliance of Taliban drug dealers and corrupt government officials has made a mockery of coalition forces' attempts to stem the export of heroin.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, is expected to announce a £3.5bn helicopter building programme early this week.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two British soldiers killed in service in Afghanistan Rifleman James Backhouse 18 and Bombardier Craig Hopson 24 are to have streets in their home town named after them.
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
IF 40 per cent of the public don't know why we are in Afghanistan it is because they are not being given the facts, and that includes a map of the area showing what is goi
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ten British servicewomen on operations in Afghanistan have been sent back to the UK in the past six months after falling pregnant, it was revealed today. The servicewomen were evacuated between April 31 and October 31 this year under military rules which ban pregnant women from being on battle duty, according to figures released to the Sunday Mirror by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). An MoD spokeswoman...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama is expected to announce his long-delayed plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan next week with a promise of between 3,000 and 7,000 extra troops from Nato allies — including Britain, so as to stop this looking like America’s war.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
There have been a number of reports of planes flying at night in Fermanagh and there was also a recent report of a possible plane crash though nothing appears to have been found. The Army denied training with unmanned drones but did state that pilots were using Fermanagh for training purposes. An army spokesperson stated: “As you know, with Northern Ireland being part of the UK, there is low...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | yesterday
People hate the Americans from the bottom of their hearts,” Haji Akhtar Mohammed Shinwari said as he recalled how the US military had brought death to his homeland. For residents of Shinwar, a village in distant Nangahar province, the message from President Karzai’s address yesterday that the Americans would hand over security over the next five years was disappointing. At the village bazaar,...
JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
You evil "rich people" raking in an unseemly $200K a year better be ready to bend over a bit more.Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000”...
Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | yesterday
Broadcast on ITV News in November 2009 - correspondent John Ray climbs aboard a Mastiff armoured vehicle in a Queens Company, 1 Grenadier Guards convoy, on a resupply mission to remote Patrol Bases in Battlegroup (Centre South) area of operations. By kind permission of ITN. © ITN 2009
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday was the 100th time that the small Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett has fallen silent as the bodies of servicemen killed in Afghanistan passed along the High Street.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
A SUICIDE bomber in south-western Afghanistan killed 17 people yesterday, and an Afghan MP escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of Kabul while five of his bodyguards were
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A SUICIDE bomber in south-western Afghanistan killed 17 people yesterday, and an Afghan MP escaped a separate blast on the outskirts of Kabul while five of his bodyguards were
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
As training for 36 officials beings in the US, questions about political goals remain
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Its been 8 years since the illegal invasion of Afghanistan, and 6 years since the invasion of Iraq. It was promised that they would be in and out,...
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natwhokares | 11/11/2009
http://whokares.net/2009/11/11th-of-november-should-be-a-bank-holiday/ Loading ... Especially today the 11th of November I’m wondering if this day should be a bank holiday. In France, it is. But a part, old people who go to put flowers to commemorate the soldiers who fought and died during the WW1, no one is really commemorate anything. But maybe in the UK it should be more important nowadays, because
abdulruff | 03/07/2009
Whither Pakistan ? (Anti-Islamic Strategic Coalition in Pakistan ) - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal *** Today one really does not know what exactly has been going on in Jinnah’s Pakistan and one has to just believe how the global media narrate the stories to suit their goals in pursuing the interests of their hawkish masters. Perhaps Jinnah had not chosen the right people then for the new Islamic nation...
abdulruff | 03/07/2009
July 03, 2009 Dear Editor: Indian yahoo is cutting my articles to size. So, Terror India has lost to a simple Muslim at last. 786* I dedicate all my journalistic, research writings to the memory of my grandmother Mohammad Meera Umma, who taught me alphabets and numerical first and primarily responsible for my school and college studies. ------------------ (Anti-Islamic Strategic Coalition in Pakistan...
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