Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith directed one of his SAS comrades to kill an elderly man who was dragged from a mosque in Afghanistan, according to allegations uncovered by ABC Investigations. Key points: The August 2012 killing was condemned at the time by Afghan president Hamid Karzai but defended by the Australian government, who claimed the man was an insurgent …
The Taliban terrorists are fast gaining control over large chunks of Afghan territory. As per the latest reports, Abdullah Atefi, a noted Afghan poet and historian was brutally killed by the Taliban last night. Taliban killed poet and historian Abdullah Atefi in #Afghanistan‘s southern province of Uruzgan. Taliban and its backers in Pakistan want a wasteland.” Atefi’s home district of …
The Afghan province where Australian troops served for close to a decade could be the first to fall back under Taliban control as foreign militaries withdraw from the war-torn country. Key points: Military and Afghan analysts believe the Taliban now controls five of the six districts in Uruzgan Province In 2006 the Australian Defence Force deployed its first Reconstruction Task …
Hundreds of Afghans who risked their lives to assist the US military with interpreting and other services have found themselves abandoned as the US pulls out of Afghanistan. Twelve days later, Ameen discovered the headless corpse of his brother in front of the family farmhouse, with a note attached to his clothes: “Do not work with infidels any more.” Now, …
Dutch soldiers in Uruzgan were warned by allies both before and during the bombing of the Afghan city and region of Chora in 2007 about the high risk of civilian casualties. The Ministry of Defense had always said that it was involved in a fight against "eight hundred to a thousand" Taliban fighters, including accidental civilian casualties. Earlier, the Dutch …
