New Boomerang device helps troops return Taliban fire

A state-of-the-art new shot detection system called Boomerang III is protecting troops in Afghanistan against small arms fire, the MOD announced today. The acoustic shot detection system has been introduced in patrol bases and checkpoints on the frontline to alert troops immediately to the source of incoming fire. The system detects shots fired at bases [...]

Pakistan naval officers face court martial over raid

Three Pakistani naval officers are to face an unprecedented court martial for charges of negligence over a Taliban attack on an air base that took 17 hours to repel and left 10 military personnel dead. The group of heavily armed militants besieged the naval air base in the country’s biggest city of Karachi on May [...]

Ac-130 gunship strikes taliban Part 4

Ac-130 gunship strikes taliban Part 4

Madness Part 4

US money ended up in Taliban hands: report

US government funds earmarked ostensibly to promote business in Afghanistan have landed in Taliban hands under a $2.16 billion transportation contract, The Washington Post has reported. Citing the results of a year-long military-led investigation, the newspaper said US and Afghan efforts to address the problem have been slow, and all eight of the trucking firms [...]

Drone Usage on the Rise in Conflicts Worldwide

Drones are becoming more widespread throughout the world – be it in Pakistan, Iraq, in Yemen or Somalia. These unmanned planes, currently mainly piloted remotely, may eventually engage each other on their own. On Thursday, Iranian and Indian media reported that an American drone strike had killed four militants in the North Waziristan region of [...]

Doubts cloud NATO handover in Afghanistan

Grave doubts over the ability of Afghanistan’s fledgling security forces to beat back the Taliban are weighing on a transition from NATO control taking place in seven parts of the country this week. With foreign troops starting to leave ahead of a full combat drawdown by 2015, the spotlight is keenly focused on building up [...]

British force in Afghanistan was ‘unacceptably’ weak: report

The British task force sent into Afghanistan’s Helmand province in 2006 was badly equipped, under-manned and not strong enough to take on the Taliban, a scathing government report concluded Sunday. In the Operations in Afghanistan report, the Defence Select Committee slammed senior military officers and government ministers for their lack of foresight when taking over [...]

US suspends $800 million in Pakistan military aid

The United States is withholding some $800 million in aid to Pakistan, almost a third of the $2.7 billion in security assistance it provides each year to Islamabad, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff has confirmed. Relations between the key allies, always tricky, have drastically deteriorated since US commandos shot and killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama [...]

US withdrawal risks NATO ‘stampede’ out of Afghanistan

The decision by US President Barack Obama to bring home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next year risks a rush to pull out among NATO allies after a grinding decade-old war, analysts say. With Europeans focused on containing a debt crisis at home and already feeling the strains of the air war in Libya, experts [...]