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Mounting casualties compel Canada to send Afghanistan reinforcements Canada will soon deploy additional troops and armaments to southern Afghanistan to bolster NATO’s embattled occupation force....
Posted: Sat, Sep 16, 2006 8:31am PDT
Better paid, better armed, better connected - Taliban rise again Kandahar under threat, war raging in two provinces and an isolated president. So what went wrong?...
Posted: Fri, Sep 15, 2006 7:57pm PDT
European powers refuse to send more troops to Afghanistan Bitterness and general rancour characterise the relations within NATO one week after its senior military commander called for 2,500 reinforcements to be urgently dispatched to assist the 8,000 British, Canadian and Dutch troops caught up in savage combat in Afghanistan’s southern provinces. In the face of dire warnings that the NATO-led occupation risks losing ground before a resurgence of support for the former Taliban regime, the major European members of the alliance have refused to send a...
Posted: Fri, Sep 15, 2006 6:30am PDT
Daniel Ortega: The marathon man of Nicaraguan politics Could Nicaragua's former leftist revolutionary leader, Daniel Ortega once again become president of his country? Mr Ortega's Sandinista party led Nicaragua in the 1980s with strong US opposition....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:42am PDT
Poland to boost Nato Afghan force Poland has announced it will send 1,000 troops to Afghanistan next year as part of the Nato peacekeeping force there....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:41am PDT
BTL:Five Years After 9/11, Taliban Fighters Regaining Strength in Afghanistan Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:13am PDT
Peacetalks: Sonali Kolhatkar on Afghanistan (audio/mpeg 24.4MB) Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar about the current situation in Afghanistan and the book she co-authored with James Ingalls, "Bleeding Afghanistan....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 6:34am PDT
Soldiers reveal horror of Afghan campaign Soldiers deployed in Helmand province five years on from the US-led invasion, and six months after the deployment of a large British force, have told The Independent that the sheer ferocity of the fighting in the Sangin valley, and privations faced by the troops, are far worse than generally known....
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 6:36am PDT
NATO in disarray over military crisis in Afghanistan Afghanistan is becoming a military and political disaster for the NATO alliance, which is embroiled in the Bush administration’s attempt to subjugate the country. As the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of the Taliban regime approaches, much of Afghanistan is in the hands of warlords with links to international drug cartels or falling back under the control of the Taliban....
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2006 6:20am PDT
Afghan clashes 'kill 40 Taleban' Nato-led forces in Afghanistan say they have killed 40 more Taleban rebels in an ongoing offensive in the south....
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 8:17am PDT
18 killed in Kabul blast near US embassy A massive suicide car bomb struck a convoy of US military vehicles in the Afghan capital today, killing at least 18 people, including two American soldiers, and injuring more than 30 others....
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 6:37am PDT
Afghan force 'needs more troops' Nato's leaders have urged member countries to provide reinforcements to help in its campaign against Taleban guerrillas in southern Afghanistan....
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 6:12pm PDT
Opium war 'making enemies of Afghans' British and US efforts to decimate the opium industry in Afghanistan have "hijacked" nation-building attempts in the country, and are driving support for the Taliban, a report said today....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 7:36am PDT
Three British soldiers killed in Iraq and Kabul Two British soldiers were killed and a third was seriously wounded today north of Basra, the British military said. And another British soldier was killed in the Afghanistan capital....
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 8:15am PDT
The war the world forgot Yesterday's air crash in Afghanistan brought the death toll to 23 in a month. The Taliban is fighting more fiercely than ever. But frontline troops feel under-equipped, battle weary and ignored. By Cole Moreton in London and Tom Coghlan in Helmand province...
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 8:46am PDT
'Canadians die' in Afghan clash A Nato-led operation near Kandahar in south Afghanistan has left three Canadian soldiers and dozens of insurgents dead, Afghan officials say....
Posted: Sun, Sep 3, 2006 8:32am PDT
UN warns of soaring Afghan opium Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to soar by 59% this year, providing 92% of the world's supply of opium, the United Nations says....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 8:46am PDT
14 Britons killed in Afghanistan Fourteen British service personnel have died after their aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, the MoD has said....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 8:45am PDT
Afghan Interior Ministry Takes on Armed Factions The interior ministry takes a bold step to curb the power of warring paramilitary groups, but the government may still be too weak to dismantle their political support....
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 8:42am PDT
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