Cuts to the US government’s Afghanistan development programme have put in doubt the future of a 220-tonne hydroelectric generator that British forces hauled across the desert of Helmand more than three years ago. The September 2008 operation to sneak the heavy machinery across 100 miles of hostile territory in northern Helmand to the Kajaki dam [...]
Tag: southern afghanistan
December 12, 2011
December 8, 2011
Afghanistan blast kills five civilians
December 7, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Afghanistan blast kills five civilians 06 Dec 2011 A minibus packed with Afghan civilians goes over a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, killing at least four children and one woman. The incident happened in the Choray district of southern Uruzgan Province, 370 kilometers south of the Afghan capital Kabul, [...]
December 8, 2011
Bomb blast kills 19 in Afghanistan
December 7, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Bomb blast kills 19 in Afghanistan 07 Dec 2011 A roadside bomb has exploded in southern Afghanistan, leaving at least 19 people including women and children dead, Afghan officials say. The incident occurred on Wednesday when a roadside bomb hit a mini-van carrying Afghan civilians, leaving at least 19 [...]
November 15, 2011
Afghan bomb blast kills US-led soldier
November 15, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Afghan bomb blast kills US-led soldier 14 Nov 2011 Another US-led soldier has been killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announces. ISAF said in a statement that the foreign soldier “died following a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Sunday,” Reuters [...]
November 8, 2011
Roadside Bomb Kills Afghan Police Chief
Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed a district police chief and two of his bodyguards in southern Afghanistan. The attack late Sunday took place in Helmand province and killed Garmser district’s police chief, Mohammad Saifullah. Helmand is one of Afghanistan’s most violent provinces and sits in the heart of the Taliban’s traditional stronghold [...]
October 29, 2011
Afghan soldier kills 2 US-led troops
October 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Afghan soldier kills 2 US-led troops 29 Oct 2021 The US-led NATO force says a man dressed in Afghan army uniform has shot dead two foreign troops in southern Afghanistan. “Two International Security Assistance Force service members were killed today in southern Afghanistan when an individual wearing an Afghan [...]
October 29, 2011
Deadly Attacks Hit Afghanistan
Afghan officials say a suicide car bomber has attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the capital, Kabul, killing as many as 10 people. Authorities say the bomber targeted a NATO bus Saturday in the Darulaman area. An interior ministry spokesman said the dead included three civilians and a police officer. A NATO statement [...]
October 24, 2011
US-led soldier killed in S. Afghanistan
October 24, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis US-led soldier killed in S. Afghanistan 23 Oct 2011 A militant attack has killed at least one US-led soldier in troubled southern Afghanistan, the Western military alliance, NATO, says. This is the second US-led soldier who has died today in what NATO calls a Taliban attack in Afghanistan.
September 30, 2011
3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghan war
September 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis 3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghan war 29 Sep 2011 Three soldiers serving with the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Afghanistan. The three soldiers died in an explosion in south Afghanistan on Thursday, the Associated Press cited a [...]
September 28, 2011
US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
September 26, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan 26 Sep 2011 Another US-led soldier has lost his life in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, NATO has said in a statement. The soldier was killed on Monday, the Western military alliance said without giving further details about the nationality of the soldier. [...]
September 25, 2011
5 NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan
September 24, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis 5 NATO Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan 23 Sep 2011 Five members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) died in separate incidents in Afghanistan on Friday. Two of them were killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in southern Afghanistan, while three others died as a result [...]