Training really has progressed since I left the forces (Brit Vet), however that's just part of what I see here. At a guess these are part of the forces being pledged to Afghanistan. I always wonder that the...
Since the end of August there has been much speculation on President Obama's decision on the new Afghanistan Strategy. The President has been accused of dithering. General McChrystal has publicly stated...
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"Quetta Front & the Baluchi Factor As fighting in Afghanistan, particularly the south, intensifies U.S. policy-makers are beginning to shift their gaze to Afghanistan’s southern border with Pakistan and...
Canada has had troops deployed to Afghanistan since January 2002, when members of the Third Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry deployed as part of 10 Mountain Division. Canada has been...
Several News services are reporting a tragic event in Kunduz which is in Northern Afghanistan. A NATO air strike was targeting Taliban insurgents who stole two fuel tankers. Early estimates...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization saw China and Russia begin their military exercise together on Wednesday. Under the code name "PeaceMission-2009", the drill will last five days, July 22-26. The main focus...
The U.S. Department of Defense has released figures of Deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. The total number as of 6 July 2009 is 642. The Department last updated its figures at 10 a.m. EDT....
A U.S soldier, private first class, is believed to have been captured in Afghanistan as almost 4,000 U.S Marines launched an operation in the Helmand Province to take control of Taliban strongholds. CNN is reporting...
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Today was the day that American troops withdrew from cities and towns in Iraq and estabilished themselves in the Iraqi countryside. No longer were American troops to be seen, helicopters no longer buzzed the...
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Wednesday a powerful bomb killed more than 75 people in a market in Sadr City, Baghdad's main Shiite neighborhood. The resurgence of violence casts serious doubts on the readiness of Iraqi Security Forces to...
An insurgent rocket attack on Bagram Air Base, a major US Base in Afghanistan, has killed 2 US soldiers and wounded 6 others (4 Americans and 2 civilians). According to the top official, Kabir Ahamad, several...
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Rajapakse in 1980's.If Sinhalese pick up the arms and fight the government they are insurgents. And Rajapakse had sympathy for them!!! But, if a Tamil journalist criticize the government then he is a terrorist....
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide Soldiers with the capability to see activity surrounding an objective without detection. "A group of insurgents waits in the dark to ambush a convoy. They sit patiently,...
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"WASHINGTON — President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out...
This war is ending soon, probably within days, with a Sri Lanka victory. The big question is what happens next. Will there be reconciliation or another war? " Sri Lanka's prime minister on Thursday...