Afghanistan
After 911 it marked the first phase of the War on Terror. But history may be repeating itself: first a British army was defeated here at the height of Empire, then the Soviets were forced to withdraw, now Coalition forces are facing increasing resistance
By wmw_admin on March 16, 2012
The dead include at least twelve US-led Turkish troops
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on March 16, 2012
The decade old campaign in jeopardy as Afghan president urges Coalition forces to pull back to their bases and the Taliban cancels further talks
Posted in Afghanistan, Behind The "News", Current Affairs |
By wmw_admin on March 15, 2012
An Afghan dies during an assassination attempt that had it succeeded would have taken the life of U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on March 15, 2012
Reiterating other reports that the shooting of 16 Afghan civilians was not the work of a ‘lone gunmen’
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on March 13, 2012
Taliban insurgents opened fire on senior officials, including two brothers of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, as they were leaving a memorial service at a village mosque for 16 villagers killed by a US soldier
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on March 12, 2012
In contrast to the western media, which has claimed a rogue U.S. soldier was responsible, Afghan witnesses say the shooting of sixteen civilians on Sunday was carried out by a GROUP of U.S. soldiers
Posted in Afghanistan, The Media |
By wmw_admin on March 1, 2012
In what is becoming a recurrent feature of the war, an Afghan soldier aided by a civilian shot dead two U.S. soldiers Thursday
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on February 26, 2012
More details emerge about the killing of two U.S. advisors as violent protests over the burning Qurans coninue in Afgahnistan
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on February 25, 2012
The two Americans killed – both serving officers – were shot dead inside Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on February 24, 2012
Protests over Koran burning continues for a fourth day as demonstrators try to storm U.S. Consulate
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on February 21, 2012
Thousands of enraged protestors besiege the largest US base in Afghanistan
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on February 20, 2012
The invasion was meant to revive the drugs trade, after the Taliban outlawed the production of opium; which is why in the last 10 years heroin production is up from 185 tons a year to 5,800
Posted in Afghanistan, Behind The "News" |
By wmw_admin on February 1, 2012
Why has it taken so long to realise this? No one since Alexander the Great has succesfully subjugated Afghanistan. Why didn’t NATO heed history’s lessons?
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on January 20, 2012
In the latest incident of its kind, an Afghan soldier has turned his weapon on Coalition forces killing 4 French troops. Prompting President Sarkozy to threaten an early withdrawal of French forces from Afghanistan
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on January 8, 2012
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commence military exercises close to the Afghan border
Posted in Afghanistan, Iran |
By wmw_admin on December 30, 2011
To be deployed in Afghanistan initially but we suspect that it wont be long before it’s flying over the U.S. too
Posted in Afghanistan, Surveillance |
By wmw_admin on December 30, 2011
An increasingly familiar report indicative of growing Taliban infiltration of Afghan security forces
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on December 26, 2011
If the gunman is confirmed an Afghan soldier, the shooting would be the latest in a series of attacks by Afghans against coalition partners
Posted in Afghanistan |
By wmw_admin on December 15, 2011
Photographs and a first-hand report that leave you wondering who the real terrorists are: ‘Muslim extremists’ or those who claim to be defending our freedom?
Posted in "The War on Terror", Afghanistan |