Blasts at Iran mosque kill 15
Posted in Islam, News on July 16th, 2010 by admin – Comments Off
Explosions at a mosque in the southeastern Iranian provincial capital of Zahedan on Thursday killed at least 15 people and injured more, Iranian news agencies reported.
The semiofficial Fars News Agency quoted Interior Ministry official Ali Abdollahi as saying the attack was carried out by one or more suicide bombers and that at least 22 people were injured in addition to those killed.
Rogue Afghan soldier kills 3 British troops with RPG
Posted in Islam, News on July 13th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffArmed with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and an automatic rifle, a rogue Afghan soldier attacked a group of British troops early Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, killing three of the soldiers and wounding four others before escaping.
The Afghan soldier was assigned to a patrol base shared by NATO troops and the Afghan National Army in the volatile southern province of Helmand, according to NATO spokespeople and Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry.
Helmand is where American troops mounted a large-scale offensive earlier this year to uproot Taliban insurgents from a stronghold in the town of Marjah.
NATO airstrike kills 5 Afghan soldiers
Posted in News on July 7th, 2010 by admin – Comments Off
NATO mistakenly killed five of its Afghan army allies in an airstrike Wednesday while the Afghans were attacking insurgents in the country’s east, officials said.
An Afghan defense official condemned the latest “friendly fire” deaths, which came at a time when international troops are trying to improve coordination with Afghan security forces in hopes of handing over more security to them.
The Afghan soldiers were launching a morning ambush against insurgents reportedly on the move in Ghazni province when NATO aircraft began firing on them without warning, Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said Wednesday.
In Kabul, Gen. Petraeus, Ambassador Eikenberry stress unity
Posted in Celeb, News on July 3rd, 2010 by admin – Comments OffTen days after his predecessor was fired over remarks that laid bare a dysfunctional civilian-military relationship, the new American commander in Afghanistan sought Saturday to put a unified face on the U.S.-led war effort.
U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who arrived Friday to assume command of U.S. and Western forces here, made his public debut in Kabul at a Fourth of July weekend celebration at the U.S. Embassy.
He and U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, who presides over the world’s largest American diplomatic mission, used brief remarks there to drive home the message that they would heed President Obama’s stern order to put aside internal rivalries.
A rapid-fire chain of events led to Gen. McChrystal’s downfall
Posted in News, Politics, what on June 24th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffGen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s team knew it had a problem on its hands last Thursday, when fact checkers for Rolling Stone magazine sent in questions for an upcoming cover story.
Did the Afghanistan commander’s inner circle really refer to itself as “Team America”? read one question that landed on the desk of McChrystal’s press aide, Duncan Boothby.
It was hardly the most explosive revelation in the piece, but it served as an early warning that McChrystal’s decision to allow generous access might have backfired.
Afghanistan violence is soaring, U.N. says
Posted in News on June 20th, 2010 by admin – Comments OffAfghanistan has become a far more dangerous place for Western troops and Afghan civilians alike, with an increase in suicide attacks, roadside bombings and political assassinations in the first four months of 2010, the United Nations said in a report released Saturday.
The gloomy assessment comes on the heels of congressional testimony last week by senior U.S. military officials who acknowledged that efforts to stabilize Afghanistan’s volatile south are proving more complex and time-consuming than anticipated.
