Veterans' Service Organizations VSOs are pleased that media attention is focused on the newest generation of combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and the strong message from the American public that it does indeed support the troops. But for many of the message is bittersweet. Most Americans don't realize...
While Marines from around the globe continue their fight in the streets of Iraq and harsh terrain of Afghanistan, a different kind of mission carries on in the Horn of Africa. Considered by some experts to be the next front in the Global War on Terrorism, the region is rife...
Thank you for your acknowledgement of our troops in Afghanistan in the July issue. I am sure there many Americans are unaware Canadian troops are there. We have lost some good men and women there in the fight to free the Afghan people from the tyranny they have suffered for...
WORLD FOCUS Algeria Al-Qa'ida "in the Maghreb" strikes again. Forty-three dead on Tuesday, another 11 yesterday. And across the Muslim world, it continues. A suicide bomber in Mersin in Turkey, 23 dead in a hospital complex in Pakistan and - let us not forget how these...
GORDON BROWN tried to shrug off questions over his leadership as he ended his summer break saying he would go on to win a general election. Speaking as he left for China for the closing days of the Beijing Olympics, Mr Brown said relations with the Foreign...
BAE secures armed forces munitions deal *BAE Systems has landed a contract with the UK Government to provide arms to troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, worth up to 3bn over the next 15 years. The "Munitions Acquisition - the Supply Solution" contract will initially be worth...
World News IN BRIEF *KABUL President Nicolas Sarkozy said French troops must stay in Afghanistan to fight terrorism, a day after 10 were killed in a Taliban ambush. In a short visit to the Afghan capital, M. Sarkozy said: "A part of the world's freedom is...
On Thursday, August 21, 2008, CANADEM's Director of the Canadian Governance Support Office Afghanistan, Grant Brown, and Canada's charge d'affaires for Afghanistan, Ron Hoffman, will provide an on-the-record overview from the field on Canada's role in Afghanistan, specifically the role of the Canadian Governance Support Office. Senior representatives from Foreign...
The Capital-Journal FORT RILEY -- Fort Riley officials said Tuesday that Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony Carbullido, 25, died of wounds suffered Aug. 8 at Sangatesh, Afghanistan, when the vehicle in which he was traveling struck an improvised explosive device. Carbullido was a hospital...
ORLANDO, Florida AFP — US President George W. Bush said Wednesday that Russia must withdraw its forces from Georgia and that "the world must stand for freedom" in the former Soviet republic. In a speech to a major US military veterans group, Bush underlined that Georgia had contributed...
WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon said Wednesday it has no information that close US air support resulted in casualties among French troops ambushed by insurgents in Afghanistan. The newspaper Le Monde reported that French troops wounded in the fighting said NATO air strikes missed their targets and hit...
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...
Afghanistan Newsweek *Afghanistan's insurgents have a new target - Kabul. And the belt of towns and villages surrounding the capital. The militants seem to have realized what the US military did just before its surge in Iraq: that instability in the capital has an...
Home News IN BRIEF *A British soldier killed as he left his patrol vehicle in southern Afghanistan was named by the defence ministry yesterday. Corporal Barry Dempsey, 29, of The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, was killed by an...
Mahoba Rahimi is an anomaly in her U.S. kitchen. She doesn't use measuring cups, she is still getting used to an electric stove and the food processor seems out of place. "I wish it were a bit bigger," Rahimi said with a smile when she looked at...
President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision this spring to dispatch hundreds more French soldiers to Afghanistan was extremely unpopular. It was no surprise therefore that within hours of the slaughter in Afghanistan, M. Sarkozy interrupted his French riviera holiday with his wife Carla Bruni to fly to Kabul to support French troops....
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan {ndash} A suicide attack on a hospital Tuesday in northern Pakistan killed more than two dozen people, a reminder of the challenges facing the country's untested democratic government after Pervez Musharraf resigned as president. The blast occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, in Pakistan's troubled northwest. Despite...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting in Afghanistan over the last two days, including a coordinated assault by at least 10 suicide bombers against one of the largest American military bases in the country, and another by some 100 insurgents that...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber drove a car into a crowd of workers at the gates of a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 workers and wounding 22 others, Afghan officials said. The bomber failed to penetrate the base, and no U.S....
*Extra troops to combat Pakistan instability BRITAIN'S special forces are to play a key role in a newly- planned "surge" against Taliban forces in Afghanistan, TheIndependent has learnt. SAS and SBS troops are to be used to dramatically expand the Army's "decapitation" strategy...
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