Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan News

An army 'super-gym' has opened in Wiltshire to help speed up the rehabilitation of injured soldiers.

TROOPS who set off from their headquarters in Chester are arriving in Afghanistan where they will now spend their Christmas.

The first reinforcements of President Barack Obama's Afghanistan "surge" will give U.S. Marines the forces needed to tackle the last major Taliban stronghold on their patch, a commander said on Tuesday.

Militants struck two checkpoints in separate provinces of Afghanistan, killing at least 15 policemen, authorities said.

The Pentagon's top military officer visited Afghanistan on Monday just as the first of the 30,000 U.S. reinforcements are starting to deploy to the 8-year-old war.

Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior says 16 Afghan National Police officers have died in two attacks on checkpoints in southern and northern Afghanistan.

Humanitarian assistance is not reaching refugees displaced by the conflict in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, aid agencies say.

A Plymouth soldier has described himself as "lucky" despite taking shrapnel to the eye while serving in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Marines were tense looking for bombs buried near a mud compound in this remote farming town in southern Afghanistan.

Since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 more than 200 UK soldiers have been killed in action, 100 of those deaths this year alone.

Soldiers from The Royal Anglian Regiment. A soldier from the regiment was killed yesterday.

The new NATO offensive in Helmand Province marked not only the largest assault yet for the VM-22 Osprey, but also the combat debut of the Marines' massive new combat mine and bomb-clearing machine, the Assault Breacher Vehicle , said a Marine Corps spokesman in Helmand.The ABV, which looks like something out of an apocalyptic science fiction movie, ...

President Barack Obama has his troop surge. Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces have theirs.

David Cameron meets Lance Sergeant Nathan Owen, who was injured by two RPG blasts, at Camp Bastion in Helmand David Cameron meets British soldiers at the Task Force Helmand HQ in Lashkar Gah David Cameron has pledged to double the bonuses paid to troops returning from Afghanistan.

MOMENTS after President Barack Obama announced a surge of 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, his commander on the ground, General Stanley McChrystal, quoted Winston Churchill: it was not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it might be "the end of the beginning". That General McChrystal should be implicitly comparing Mr Obama's ...

President Barack Obama has set a target date of July 2011 to bring withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan and handing over responsibility for security to the Afghan forces.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Nawa, Afghanistan -- When President Obama outlines his new strategy for Afghanistan in a speech Tuesday night, a pivotal element will focus on the country's south, where an influx of troops will try to secure the Taliban's spiritual center and seize a major center for bomb-making and drug-trafficking. It still ...

Afghanistan's complex patchwork of success and failure is all a world away from the metropolitan commentators At the base of the 1st Battalion 5th US Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Garamsir in south Helmand they have a slogan on their T-shirts guaranteed to enrage Caroline Lucas and Simon Jenkins , two of Cif's most recent commentators on ...

THE first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross said that collecting her bravery medal at Buckingham Palace was "the proudest day of my life". Medical assistant Kate Nesbitt braved Taliban fire to tend to a comrade shot in the neck during a gun battle on her first tour of Afghanistan in March.

A 22-year-old Forfar soldier will be spending this festive season in one of the most hostile areas of the world.