Suicide attack wounded 5 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan Canada Dot Com HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber struck international troops near the western Afghan city of Herat Saturday, wounding five soldiers, officials said. Bomb attacks are relatively rare... (photo: AP / Allauddin Khan)
Sir David Richards: the plain-speaking army chief The Guardian The decorated head of land forces privately believes a further troop surge is needed in Afghanistan Coporal Daniel James with General David Richards, who has been appointed as head of the British... (photo: ISAF)
Iran seeks Security Council seat BBC News Voting is to begin shortly at the UN headquarters in New York to decide which nations will serve as temporary members of the Security Council. Japan and Iran are... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
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