Al-Qaeda is seeking increasingly to join the fight against Nato troops in Afghanistan while younger, more ruthless leaders are rising within the ranks of the Taleban, the commanding general of the alliance has claimed.
Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez, the commander in charge of U.S. military forces in the eastern region of Afghanistan, told reporters this morning that "there has not been any militarily significant aid" coming into the country from Iran. A year ago,
A British paratrooper who lost his leg to a landmine in Afghanistan has become the first amputee to return to military service in the same warzone where he was disabled.
But the Taleban have dismissed the report, saying they have no commander with that name. It is in the south where the Taleban have been fighting some of their fiercest battles against international and Afghan forces. "We don't have anyone
The US military said several insurgents were killed but that it had no reports of civilian deaths. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly urged the US and Nato to take care to avoid civilian casualties.
Some Lowcountry families will be seeing their loved ones in the 218th Brigade Combat Team return from Afghanistan this week. Others will have a wait up to a month or more. The first of 1,600 S.C. National Guard troops serving
Consider this... Olive Ridley turtles rely on an inexplicable, in-built navigation system that guides them, when it's time for them to reproduce, back to the precise coast on which they were born -- whether it's still there or not. And
In a long Guardian article from a couple of weeks back I noticed a fine example of the favourite "consumer choice" excuse of corporations under pressure to change their ways. The massive German car maker Volkswagen has more efficient versions
Plano, TX: Kenny Chesney is taking his 2008 "The Poets & Pirates Tour" back to Texas. On Saturday, May 3, Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, and Brookes and Dunn will perform at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas.
Banking on Heaven is what many religious followers do, if not all to the same extent. However, those sects which make 'salvation', 'nirvana' and 'liberation from rebirth' the key motivation for their followers, are liable to be able to indoctrinate
Today early in the morning 18 air balloons went up from the Republic Square. Hence, the opening of the Yerevan colorful sky 2008 aerostatics first international festival was made by the media representatives ...
On April 9 RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian met with the special envoy of the OSCE CiO Heikki Talvitie, who has arrived in Armenia to to participate in the inauguration ceremony of RA President-Elect S...
