Afghanistan

Americans must understand that any armed group that comes to Afghanistan is doomed to defeat because the whole population of Afghanistan will fight with them - said in an interview with El País veteran of Afghanistan, now Russia's State deputy Franz Klintsevich. It has been 30 years, since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Russians are watching the actions of the coalition at this war. They reme ...

Norwegian troops, supporting Afghan police came under fire from insurgents during a mission on New Year's Eve. Several insurgents were killed, but the Norwegian patrol escaped without injuries.
The fighting started outside the village of Ateh Khan Khwajeh, when the Norwegian patrol came under fire from several directions. The fighting lasted for seven hours, according to the Norwegian Defence.
The Norwegian troops deployed in Afghanistan are part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
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Berlin, Jan 5, IRNA -- German Defense Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg is to summon the head of the German Protestant church Margot Kaessmann in the wake of her comments against the German military mission in Afghanistan, the daily Leipziger Volkszeitung said Tuesday.
Guttenberg urged Kaessmann to clarify her viewpoints on the German military mission in the war-stricken country when they meet on Monday.
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Pakistan and the United States are working on a plan to take joint military action against the Taliban and launch coordinated attacks on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border, according to Gen Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.
“In fact, we are developing a joint campaign plan so that we approach the entire problem together a ...

Officers pay the price for Nazi symbols worn in Afghanistan

Two generals appear to have fallen on their sword by handing in resignations in the fallout from a scandal involving Czech soldiers in Afghanistan wearing Nazi symbols on their uniforms.
A brief statement issued by the Defense Ministry Dec. 17 read that, as of "Dec. 31, 2009, General Josef Prokš and Major-General Jiří Halaška will terminate their service with the Czech armed forces."
"I've complied with the two generals' requests to leave the military. It is their personal decisions," Defense Minister Martin Barták said.
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Five Canadians and eight Americans have been killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, with officials saying that the Americans were working for the CIA, the US intelligence agency. The Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for the attack on the Americans, carried out at a US base in the eastern province of Khost, saying that the attacker was an officer in the Afghan army.
"This deadly attack was carried out by a valorous Afghan army member when the officials [Americans] were busy gaining information about the mujahideen," Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said in an email.
The suicide bomber reportedly evaded security at the base and detonated an explosive belt in a room used as a fitness centre on Wednesday.
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