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).
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.
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…
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.
Rioting hockey fans took to Vancouver streets in droves Wednesday night following a hometown loss to the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Setting vehicles on fire, smashing windows and looting shops, the rioters converged on the…
When Mexico marked its Centenary of Revolution last month, bringing to a close two months festivities that began in September with its Bicentenary of Independence, many assumed the northern border town of Ciudad Juárez would either cancel or at least…
He was twenty-one, a photojournalist, shot several times at close range in broad daylight. His colleague, an eighteen-year-old intern, was wounded. Luis Carlos Santiago Orozco and Carlos Manuel Sanchez Colunga were parked in a shopping centre carpark when the bullets…