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US Marines launch offensive in Afghanistan

Three days after President Barak Obama announced that he was sending 30,000 Marine Corps reinforcements to Afghanistan, US Marines already in-country launched a new offensive aimed at Taliban supply and...

PM 'will listen to Army demands'

" Demands for more equipment to protect UK forces in Afghanistan from roadside bombs will be considered, the government has promised. The head of the British army, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt, says he is compiling...

'AU firing' kills dozens of Somalis

This is another place that the world needs to watch.Somalia has the potential to start a major regionalwar. "Somali officials say at least 18 people died after African Union troops opened fire in response to a...

U.S. Toll in Afghanistan at Record High in 2008

the exact statistics about foreign casualties is unclear but in some news tells that around 300 foreign combative death in 2008 and in some other new came that more than 300 fighters, NATO had casualties  last...

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...

18 dead in Baghdad bomb blast

The bombing in the streets of Iraq is normal phenomena, but this incident is bit different because most of the victims are women.The US troops withdrawal deal is hanging in air and there is no concensus building...

Roadside Bomb kills three U.S.-led soldiers in Afghanistan

This is very unfortunate incident that three US led force is killed in a roadside bomb explosion. The continued killing of forces by gurilla warfare tactics making  the operation tough for the coalition forces. " A roadside bomb has killed three soldiers from the...

Explosion kills Canadian soldier, wounds 7 others in Afghanistan

A veteran Sgt. with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, who was on his second Afghanistan tour and was due to come home in only a week, was killed today by a roadside bomb. Sgt. Scott Shipway died while...

Bomb hits Pakistan military truck, up to 14 dead

" A roadside bomb hit a Pakistan air force truck in a northwestern city Tuesday, killing as many as 14 people including a 5-year-old girl in the latest violence in the volatile region.Meanwhile, Pakistani officials said they were investigating whether a...

Secret deal kept British Army out of battle for Basra

Reports today in British papers are claiming that a secret deal between the al-Mahdi militia in Basra prevented British forces from entering Basrea for nearly a week while US forces were bogged down there. At the time, there was great confusion and speculation about why the...

FOX News Cameraman Helps Rescue Injured Marine From Insurgent Blast in Afghan...

A pretty amazing story that shows how journalists can be in life-threatening danger."A FOX News cameraman helped save the life of an injured Marine in Afghanistan — and was injured himself — when the armored Humvee convoy he was traveling in was struck by a roadside bomb...

Bomb Kills two people in Baghdad

"BAGHDAD, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bomb explosion struck an Iraqi army patrol in eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing two people and wounding 22 others, an Interior Ministry source said. The bomb explosion hit the military patrol in Palestine Street near Mustansriyah...

Somalia bombing 'kills 15 women'

Somalia is witnessing a severe fighting for last one year and it has caused more than 8,000 civilians life and one million forced from their homes after a fight erupted between government forces and...

Afghan Blast Kills Wedding Party

Yet more carnage from Afghanistan. Roadside bombs do not care who triggers them- it's nothing personal, just chemistry and physics. For the victims, though, it's entirely personal: death, maiming and ruined lives."Both the bride and the groom were among those killed by the...

Bombings kill 43 in Baghdad, Kirkuk

Gunmen ambushed Shiite pilgrims in the a Sunni town south of Baghdad Monday. The pilgrims were marching to a major shrine there for a religious holiday.The area is a former stronghold of Al Qaeda in Iraq and was touted as one of the success stories of the US military surge,...

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