Wikileaks does not intend to stop release of secret Afghan war files
Spokesmen from the whistleblowing website Wikileaks say they will publish more classified documents despite orders from the American authorities not to. Wikileaks has been the centre of a great deal of...
View ArticleMilitary saw Afghan abuse pics in 2005, says officer
A Danish officer says the military has been sitting on pictures showing the abuse of Afghani prisoners by American soldiers for five years. According to reports on the information provided to the...
View ArticleSoldier’s death prompts Afghanistan doubts
Politicians and military officials voiced their concerns about Finland’s role in Afghanistan this week as the body of a soldier killed in a car bomb attack arrived back on home soil. The coffin of...
View ArticleAfghanistan ambassador food blog leaves bad taste
The Norwegian ambassador to Afghanistan has stirred up a storm of controversy by writing in a Foreign Ministry blog about his efforts to train his cook in Kabul to make him fancy French food. Tore...
View ArticleFormer Iceland FM takes up Afghanistan UN job
Iceland’s former foreign minister, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, is on her way to Afghanistan to take up a United Nations position. The former Minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Social...
View ArticleMilitary taught how to climb trees
Swedish soldiers are to be taught how to shimmy up trees in the proper fashion in case they need to salvage unmanned drones caught in canopies. Members of the airborne unit, which operates Unmanned...
View ArticleMilitary psychologist to keep Afghan abuse secrets
A retired Danish psychologist has opted to pay a fine of DKK 45,000 (EUR 6,054) rather than reveal to a court what a former client told her about the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan. Copenhagen City...
View ArticleSweden wants to open child centre in Kabul
The Swedish Migration Board has begun talks with authorities in Afghanistan about opening a centre in the capital, Kabul, for unaccompanied children whose application for asylum has been turned down in...
View ArticleNATO Secretary General praises Iceland
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has praised Iceland for its commitment to NATO. Rasmussen told Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson during his visit to NATO’s headquarters...
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