Kabul, rebuilt since 1992 to a reasonable facsimile of its pre-war shape, is a functioning city first and a fortified war hub second.
The flightline at Kandahar Airfield loses another flag as flight crews disassemble and ship out Canada’s last combat helicopter from Afghanistan.
For all the ink, here and elsewhere, given to its Operation Attention training mission in Kabul, Canada’s largest operation in Afghanistan remains the comparatively unheralded Mission Transition Task Force (MTTF).
Rio de Janeiro is a city of many faces, few of them subtle.
Of all the strange and unlikely pleasures to be found on the coalition bases of southern Afghanistan, the hockey rink at Kandahar Airfield must rank among the most surreal.
