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- U.S. Army Awards Advanced Blast Protection $10 Million Contract to Produce Armored Buses
- WESTON, Florida -- Advanced Blast Protection, Inc. ("ABP") today announced that it has been awarded a three-year Firm Fixed Price Requirements Contract from the U.S. Army to produce 24-passenger armored buses for U.S. military forces supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF and Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan. The base contract for...
- Research articles 2008-10-06
- Stanford Law Clinic Announces Journalist Held by U.S. Department of Defense in Bagram, Afghanistan Has Been Released
- STANFORD, Calif. -- The International Human Rights Clinic IHRC of Stanford Law School's Mills Legal Clinic, acting as co-counsel with the global humanitarian organization, the International Justice Network, announced today that the U.S. Department of Defense has released Jawed "JoJo" Ahmad, a 22-year-old Canadian Television CTV journalist who had been...
- Research articles 2008-09-23
- Karzai meets British actor Jude Law
- KABUL AFP — Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai met British actor Jude Law and flimmaker Jeremy Gilley and praised their efforts to promote peace in his war-torn country, the president's office said Wednesday. Law, ambassador for Gilley's Peace One Day project, are in Afghanistan to promote a global ceasefire and...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Pakistan official confirms cross-border raid by int'l troops
- PESHAWAR, Pakistan AFP — A Pakistan provincial governor Wednesday confirmed coalition troops from across the Afghan border had raided a Pakistani village, calling the incident "a direct assault on sovereignty." The raid killed at least 20 people, North West Frontier Province governor Owais Ahmed Ghani said in a statement....
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- Actor Jude Law in Afghanistan to push for peace
- KABUL AFP — British actor Jude Law called Monday for all parties in Afghanistan's conflict to observe a "Peace Day" on September 21 as part of a global campaign for ceasefires and non-violence. Law, ambassador for the Peace One Day project set up in 1999 by British filmmaker Jeremy...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Hero's welcome for Afghanistan's first Olympic medallist
- KABUL AFP — Afghanistan's first Olympic medallist received a hero's welcome Thursday from hundreds of beaming fans and dignitaries who hailed him as the "pride of the nation". Rohullah Nikpai, who won a bronze in taekwondo, was greeted along with his three teammates at Kabul airport by scores of...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- US transferred foreign detainees for interrogation: NY Times
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US military secretly has sent more than 200 foreign detainees captured in Iraq and Afghanistan to be interrogated in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries over the past few years, The New York Times reported Thursday. The daily wrote that the program bears many similarities...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- US forces to transfer control of Anbar to Iraqis
- WASHINGTON AFP — US forces will hand over control of Anbar province to Iraqi troops in the coming days, military officials said Wednesday, touting improved security in the region. "We believe the province could turn over to Iraqi control in just a few days," Marine General James Conway said....
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Japanese aid worker freed in Afghanistan: interior ministry
- KABUL AFP — Afghanistan's interior ministry said a Japanese national had been freed 10 hours after he was kidnapped Tuesday but his release was not confirmed by the aid worker's employer. Kazuya Ito, 31, was snatched at about 6:30 am as he was going to inspect a canal building...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Japan says Afghans learn hostage whereabouts
- TOKYO AFP — Japan said Wednesday that authorities know where Taliban militants are holding a Japanese aid worker abducted in eastern Afghanistan, expressing hope that he would be freed as soon as possible. Kazuya Ito, 31, was kidnapped on Tuesday as he headed to carry out his daily inspection...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Japanese aid worker found dead as Afghan casualties rise
- JALALABAD, Afghanistan AFP — Police found the bullet-ridden body of a Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan on Wednesday, a day after he was kidnapped, as scores of rebels died in bloody clashes across the nation. Kazuya Ito, 31, who had spent the past five years working in the war-torn...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Government of Canada Establishes Staff and Language Training Centre in Afghanistan
- The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, announced today that the Government of Canada is establishing a Staff and Language Training Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. The centre will contribute to the long-term development of the Afghan National Army ANA...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Afghanistan attack was 'legitimate' hit at Taliban: Pentagon
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US military said Monday that an attack by coalition forces in Afghanistan last week which allegedly killed dozens of civilians was a "legitimate" assault on Taliban forces. "We continue at this point to believe that this was a legitimate strike against the Taliban," said Pentagon...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- Japanese aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan: police
- JALALABAD, Afghanistan AFP — Unknown assailants kidnapped a Japanese man as he visited a development project in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, police said, in the latest in a series of attacks on aid workers. The man was snatched outside the city of Jalalabad in the eastern province of Nangarhar at...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- More than 90 killed in coalition strikes: investigation
- HERAT, Afghanistan AFP — An investigation has found that more than 90 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in coalition air strikes days ago, an Afghan government minister told AFP Sunday. President Hamid Karzai ordered the investigation into Friday's operation in the western province of Herat after Afghan...
- Research articles 2008-08-24
- Afghans protest amid claims 76 killed in military strikes
- HERAT, Afghanistan AFP — Afghan villagers staged an angry protest Saturday amid claims that 76 civilians were killed in coalition air strikes against Taliban rebels, as the US military launched an investigation. President Hamid Karzai condemned civilian casualties from Friday's clashes in the western province of Herat but there...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Roadside bomb kills 10 Afghan civilians: police
- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan AFP — A bomb blew up a minibus outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing 10 civilians, while a judge and his son were gunned down in the same area, police said. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks, but they...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- US skeptical of Afghan civilian deaths claim
- CRAWFORD, Texas AFP — The White House on Friday reacted skeptically to the Afghan interior ministry's charge that a US-led strike in western Afghanistan had killed 76 civilians, including 50 children and 19 women. "I would say that the United States and NATO have taken great steps to avoid...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Three Polish soldiers, 30 militants killed in Afghanistan
- KABUL AFP — Afghan and international troops killed more than 30 militants in a clash near Kabul, military forces said Thursday, confirming that three Polish soldiers had also died in a bomb blast. Troops called for air support after coming under fire Wednesday during a search operation in Laghman...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Pakistan missile strike kills eight: officials
- PESHAWAR, Pakistan AFP — Missiles fired from Afghanistan hit a militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal belt Wednesday, killing at least eight people including some foreign extremists, security officials said. The strike in the South Waziristan region was the first since key US ally Pervez Musharraf resigned as president on...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
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