Tag Archives : Afghanistan

A prosecutor has asked Sweden said on Thursday that Julian Assange, founder of the site WikiLeaks, to be arrested on suspicion of rape, a charge he strongly denies. The Swedish prosecutor has begun an investigation into allegations of rape against Assange, an Australian citizen in September. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that he [...]

The world of robotics that can not only help you in your daily chores and even provide surgical medical assistance is now started to dominated by the needs of the U.S armed forces. Not long ago, U.S has disclosed its arsenal of unmanned aerial vehicles that are designed to watch and even to kill. Now, the U.S Navy has set its eyes upon a new breed of [...]

Even with all the money spent by the U.S. government on technologies to detect explosives, the Pentagon assumes that its best weapon (and cheapest) is still smelling of dog. To the consternation of dogs. According to the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine, American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are only about 50% of bombs and explosives hidden when [...]

It is not just the soldiers that are exposed to danger in Afghanistan. Even the four legged, expensive dogs that are trained rigorously to sniff out bombs, and to protect the civilians are usually in danger of being blown to smithereens. Military sniffer dogs in Afghanistan will now travel in luxury – inside armour-plated kennels that would be [...]

The 1st person shooter game series Medal of Honor allows the player to be a Taliban soldier in multiplayer mode, and even before its release in October, has raised controversy. The U.S. network Fox News has presented the views of a mother whose son was killed in combat in Iraq on the new game from Electronic Arts. “Families buried their children [...]

The Briton who walked more than 9500 km from the source to the mouth of the Amazon River ended its journey on Monday (9), claiming to have been the first to complete such Herculean task. Ed Stafford, 34, a former British Army captain who served in Afghanistan, left Peru on April 2 to call attention to threats to the Amazon. He had to postpone for a [...]

WikiLeaks has posted a huge encrypted file named “Insurance” on your its site, increasing speculation that those responsible for the site to disclose more confidential information. According to blog users, the file is 20 times larger than the set of 77 000 U.S. secret military documents on Afghanistan that the site posted in July. Contributors [...]

The founder of the site WikiLeaks, a sort of Wikipedia of leaked files, said on Monday that more than 91,000 secret documents of the U.S. military bring up evidence of war crimes committed during the war in Afghanistan. On Sunday, the site posted thousands of American military records of six years of war against the Taliban Islamist group – from [...]

In Council on Foreign Relations, Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor of CFR.org, interviews Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, CFR. Boot sums up the Marjah offensive as US troops ‘trying to take out probably the biggest remaining Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province, which has been a safe haven not only [...]

Gabriela Campos, an intern at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about a compilation of analyses regarding the New Taliban. The book, entitled Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field, is edited by Antonio Giustozzi who is a fellow at the London School of Economics. The book asserts that a stronger Neo-Taliban has definitely emerged, [...]