The youngest person ever accused of a war crime, Omar Khadr, can be seen crying and pleading for his death in the first surveillance tapes to be released from Guantanamo. David Martin reports.
Jude Law has visited Afghanistan to promote a campaign for a day of ceasefire around the world.
EXCLUSIVE: Just days before their unit suffered heavy losses in Afghanistan, FRANCE 24’s Matthieu Mabin accompanied troops from France’s 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment as they faced off with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Watch the 1st part of the show.
Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada are ambushed as they conducted battle damage assessment in the village on July 15, 2006 in Sangin, Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan
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sniper artillery in afghanistan
July 2008
The war for Afghanistan is increasingly being staged from across the Pakistani border. Although Pakistan's government claims to support the US, it is reluctant to take on the Taliban in tribal areas.
(thefullmonte.com) After months working in Kabul Afghanistan we-- two young American filmmakers-- traveled into the hills for a Vacation. In the dramatic beauty of the landscape, we found an open, generous and humerous people. Our short video captures a simple story never told in the news headlines.
Filmmakers: Aaron Rockett and John Monte
Shows that war in Afghanistan goes on...It doesnt have a deadline for ending.They talk about Iraq a lot , but they´ve(the press)forgotten about Afghanistan.People are still dieing.Specially the soldiers.
ITN's Bill Neely reports during a firefight in Afghanistan. (March 27)
Getty Images photographer John Moore was embedded with British forces in Southern Afghanistan in 2007.
Footage has been released of Prince Harry fighting on the front line in Afghanistan. .
Danish forces battle it out with Taliban in the town of Musa Qala, in Southern Afghanistan, Helmand Province.
October 2005
After soldiers of a US 173rd Airborne company burn the bodies of two Taliban killed near the Pakistan border, members of the army's psychological warfare unit then broadcast an inflammatory message designed to taunt and bait the
enemy.
US soldiers in Afghanistan have taken the tactics of psychological warfare to a grotesque extreme. ...
Nearly one in seven Afghan women die in childbirth.
Follow an Afghan American filmmaker and her father to his native Afghanistan, where he brings desperately needed medical attention and expertise to the women most susceptible to maternal mortality.
MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN premieres Tuesday, February 13 on Independent Lens, a weekly series airing ...
Dec 2007
The tradition of dog fighting thrives in Afghanistan's capital.
Having been banned under the Taliban, it is currently undergoing resurgence in popularity for the thousands of men looking for some form of entertainment and escapism from the constant war.
"For us dog fighting is a celebration," exclaims one of the fight organisers.
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Under the Taliban, Kabul's football stadium was a place of fear and execution. Football was discouraged and spectators banned from cheering. But through all the years of oppression, love of the beautiful game remained. Now, in a symbol of the country's rebirth, Afghanistan is...
As part of its series on veterans from some of the world's most brutal and forgotten conflicts Al Jazeera travelled to Russia.
Despite being the Soviet Union's largest military operation since the second world war, the decade-long war in Afghanistan is regarded by many as a humiliation and the Soviet 'Vietnam'.
However many veterans are still phy...
500lb GBU-12 courtey of the USAF!!cheers guys!
June 2008
Internationally acclaimed Photographer Stephen Dupont narrowly escaped a suicide blast in Afghanistan. After 20 years of recording the plight of others, he was now turning the lens on himself.
Just after the explosion, Dupont pulled out his camera and began capturing the chaos. He filmed himself, blood running down his face, as he search...
Music video of Russian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. All picures are used from http://www.militaryphotos.net
The movie is 9 rota, 9th company
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Duracion: 3 Min 15 Seg
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Añadido: 25 de Agosto de 2006
Some pictures from afghanistan.
March 2007
As casualties mount in Afghanistan, questions are being asked about NATO's tactics. Can the Taliban be defeated by military might alone or is a more subtle strategy required?
A convoy of 20 armed vehicles rolls into a village. After a security perimeter is established, engineers start fitting a water tank to the village mosque. It's pa...
Troops from Alpha Company, 2nd Platoon, "Red Devils" from Edmonton, Canada engage in a fierce firefight with Taliban insurgents on July 8, 2006 in Panjawi, Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan.
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Report from Brian Hanrahan (BBC) from Kabul on the war against the Mujahadeen.
August 2008
Can America really beat the Taliban using a textbook? We take a look at the practice behind the theory, as Charlie Company attempt to follow the instructions laid out in the Counterinsurgency Field Manual.
Seen as "a modern military textbook for winning hearts and minds and outwitting the enemy" the book also known as the COIN Manual, ...
French Troops ambushed by Talibans in a afghan village
A video tribute i made to the men and wemon killed on September 11th and the soldiers of all nations that are in Afghanistan.
Video clip from 9/11: Press For Truth. This features Seymour Hersh discussing in mainstream television news appearances how (Bush and heads of) the U.S. Military purposely let Osama Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, and flee across the border into Pakistan. And how they purposely let thousands of other Al 'Qaeda fighters, and possibly som...
Afghanistan - Weit.entfernt.vom.Frieden
January 2008
While the world has focused on Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan has slowly deteriorated. As this embed report reveals, soldiers constantly come under attack.
"We take direct fire every day but our story always gets put on the backburner to Iraq", states Sgt Collins. "I know most of the soldiers feel forgotten". Charlie Company is ta...