There is a storm brewing in Canada and I don.t mean a winter storm. A parliamentary committee is looking into allegations of prisoner abuse of detainees handed to Afghan authorities by Canadian...
President Obama gave his speech on the Afghanistan Strategy on Tuesday evening at West Point. There has been a lot of discussion and back and forth on the President's decision. The Presidents...
Tooryalai Wesa left Afghanistan in 1991 after serving as Kandahar University's first president. He worked at the University of British Columbia's agricultural expert in Canada. Hamid Karzai asked him to...
Canada's Parliament voted that Canada's military mission in Afghanistan would end in 2011. Canada maintains a contingent of 2800 troops in Afghanistan, which consists of a battle group and a headquarters...
After the recent spate of attacks on the ally forces led by U.S in Afghanistan primarily using homemade bombs that used substances like fertilizers, the NATO forces have started a new hunt for such materials....
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
" 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...
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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...