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OTTAWA – Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department offered a muted response Tuesday to the execution of 15 prisoners in Afghanistan.
Read More »Afghanistan’s Execution of 15 Prisoners Is a Concern, UN Says
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) — The execution of 15 prisoners in Afghanistan, the second confirmed use of the death penalty since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, is a concern, the United Nations envoy in the country said.
Read More »Australia mourns soldier killed in Afghanistan
SYDNEY (AFP) — Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday an Australian soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan died for a just cause while fighting “brutal terrorism”.
Read More »Dead UK Afghanistan soldier named
A UK soldier killed in Afghanistan is the most senior Army officer to die in the country since the conflict began. Maj Alexis Roberts, serving with the 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, was returning to Kandahar Airfield on Thursday when he died in an explosion.
Read More »British soldier, several militants killed in Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) — A British NATO soldier was killed in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan overnight while US-led coalition forces killed several militants, officials said Friday.
Read More »Canada Increases Support for Education in Afghanistan
MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwire – Oct. 4, 2007) – The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today joined the Afghanistan Minister of Education, His Excellency Haneef Atmar, to announce that Canada’s New Government is taking a leadership role to increase the access to and quality of education in Afghanistan, by …
Read More »Violence highest since invasion
KABUL, Afghanistan — Violence in Afghanistan has spiked to its highest level since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, with an Associated Press count of insurgency-related deaths this year surpassing the 5,000 mark.
Read More »Italian Wounded in Afghanistan Dies
ROME (AP) — An Italian intelligence agent who was kidnapped with a colleague in Afghanistan and wounded during a rescue operation died Thursday, the Defense Ministry said.
Read More »Afghanistan death toll rising
Six years after US forces began fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, new figures have been released showing the violence there is worse than ever.
Read More »5 Dutch Soldiers Wounded in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants killed two policemen and destroyed a remote government office in central Afghanistan, as five Dutch troops were wounded in a clash in the country’s south, officials said Wednesday.
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