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CAMP ATTERBURY, IND. -- Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and...
Newstalk ZB November 20, 2009, 6:12 am Investigations are underway into the death of an Air Force bomb disposal expert at Waiouru Military Camp. Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster, 46, was killed instantly when a 105mm shell...
An air force flight sergeant killed by an artillery shell which exploded at Waiouru Military Camp yesterday was a devoted family man and an "awesome all-round Kiwi bloke", his brother-in-law said today.Flight Sergeant Andrew...
Once before, she was charged with rebuilding Afghanistan. When Clare Lockhart arrived in Kabul in January 2002, she was an optimistic twenty-eight-year-old veteran of the United Nations and the World Bank who had just played a...
Afghanistan's beleaguered President Hamid Karzai makes his inauguration speech tomorrow, acutely aware that his disgruntled international backers will be poring over it for signs that he intends to mend his ways. But while he...
AP - Britain's prime minister said Friday that Europe may send 5,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan — affirming support for the NATO mission as the Obama administration nears a decision on increasing American troop levels.
The Army's tank-like LAV armoured vehicles will go to a war zone for the first time since the Labour Government spent $672 million on the fleet almost five years ago.Three of the 105 vehicles are going to Afghanistan to be used...
AP - A suicide car bomber attempting to strike an international military convoy on the outskirts of Kabul wounded at least 24 people Friday, including nine NATO service members, on a road that has become a frequent target.
by Wang Yan KABUL, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two weeks after Afghanistan announced its first death from the A/H1N1 flu, the country has seen the epidemic's death toll rising sharply, with a shadow cast on the already difficult...
Afghan Bamiyan farmers harvest wheat as the opium trade declines. (Photo: Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images) The recent deployment of 10,000 marines to Afghanistan's embattled Helmand province underscores the Obama administration's...
