The Road to Kabul
Kabul, rebuilt since 1992 to a reasonable facsimile of its pre-war shape, is a functioning city first and a fortified war hub second.
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Afghanistan
Flightline II: Parting Shots
The flightline at Kandahar Airfield loses another flag as flight crews disassemble and ship out Canada's last combat helicopter from Afghanistan.
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Combat Close-Out
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).
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Hockey Night in Kandahar
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.
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Basic Warrior Training
Increasingly prized by the NATO-led international military campaign as their ticket out of Afghanistan, the eight-year-old ANA has swelled in numbers and is projected to reach 250,000 by 2015.
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Flightline I: Afghan Air Power
The newly reactivated Afghan Air Force has a long way to go before it catches up with its brother and sister divisions in the country's domestic security forces.
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Scenes from a Funeral
One week to the hour after insurgents were engaged with coalition and Afghan forces in a fierce nineteen-hour siege that had Kabul and the world on edge, a suicide bomber entered the home of ex-Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and detonated…
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Coordinated Taliban attacks test Afghan troops
A fresh spate of attacks since we entered the country on Friday have contributed to making the past thirty days among the most vicious since the Taliban regime was toppled in late 2001.
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