Another Canadian soldier killed in IED attack -Panjwaii District

Canadian Forces in Khandahar sadly announced another death of a soldier today in Afghanistan.  Sapper Steven Marshall died as a result of an IED attack Southwest of Khandahar City.Sapper Marshall had only...

Afghan President's brother claimed to be on C.I.A payroll:NYTimes

A report in New York Times can literally brew up storm in the U.S. political cup. While the U.S. forces keep losing life daily fighting Taliban in Afghanistan and the U.S. authorities fight Mexican drug...

Taliban Attack on Canadian 'Model' Village in Afghanistan Fails

Taliban insurgents tried - and failed - to attack a village in Afghanistan that is serving as a Canadian model for a new way of life in the embattled country. A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at an Afghan...

IED Kills Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan

Private Alexandre (Pelo) Peloquin, 20 was killed today during a footpatrol.  He was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Panjwaii District in Afghanistan.Private Peloquin was a member of the 3rd...

Beating the Odds - Spearhead Analysis

By Jehangir KaramatSeveral significant recent events need to be flagged. As a sequel to the US attack on a Pakistani post on June 11, 08, Karzai’s threat to invade FATA and President Bush’s endorsement of the Karzai threat--- the implementation of Mr Gates’s suggestion...

Female Activist / Politician Murdered in Afghanistan

A Provincial Government official who was a women's rights campaigner was gunned down outside her home in Kandahar city on Sunday, in yet another blow to the advancement of women in Afghanistan. Sitara Achakzai was...

Afghan National Police, Coalition Forces Maintain Pressure

U.S. Forces Afghanistan Courtesy StoryDate: 02.27.2009KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan national police and coalition forces conducted operations Feb. 26 in Kandahar and Khowst provinces to disrupt Haqqani and Taliban networks, detaining seven suspected militants.In Khakrez...

Canadian Military Investigating Three Children Killed by Blast

A formal military investigation has been launched by the Canadian military into the death of three children in Afghanistan. Relatives and villagers in Kandahar say that an unexploded rocket left by Canadian forces killed the children, who were looking for scrap metal. A...

Unveiling the Mystery of Balochistan Insurgency

" A MUST READ report. Reporting by Tariq Saeedi in Ashgabat, With Sergi Pyatakov in Moscow, Ali Nasimzadeh in Zahidan, Qasim Jan in Kandahar and S M Kasi in Quetta. Additional reporting by Rupa Kival in New Delhi and Mark Davidson in Washington An...

Suicide bomber kills 18 police in Afghanistan

More than 18 police officer have been killed after a suicide attacked at a Police station in  Afghanistan's province of Uruzgan on Monday. "A suicide bomber killed 18 police in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan on Monday, the provincial police chief said.The...

108th Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan

We need to remember that many nations have soldiers,in Afghanistan.It is not just the US and the Taliban. " A roadside bomb has killed a Canadian soldier west of Kandahar city, bringing to 108 the total number of...

Afghan Girls, Scarred by Acid, Defy Terror, Embracing School

These girls are to be admired.Ir will take time, years, buteventually women should andwill be allowed to live normallives in Afghanistan. "Then the man pulled Shamsia’s burqa from her head and sprayed her face...

Two killed and Three Canadian Soldiers Wounded in Afghanistan

day by day the sense of resistance is raising among the afghan people. and as result of that the resistance spread all over the country.   Yesterday two Canadian Soldiers were killed and three of them were...

Suicide Bomber Hits Foreign Forces in Afghanistan

" HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of foreign troops on Friday in Afghanistan's western Herat province, wounding one U.S. soldier and two Afghan civilians, a provincial...

Afghanistan a Lost Cause??

Afghanistan is bad and getting worse.  By the next election it will likely be a bigger problem for president Obama than Iraq. "We and our friends in Kandahar are thunderstruck at recent suggestions that the...

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