Black boxes 'damaged' in Iran air disaster CNN | TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A day after an Iranian passenger plane crashed in flames killing all 168 people on board, aviation officials were Thursday examining the aircraft's damaged flight data recorders to try to determine the cause of the disaster. | Caspian Airlines flight 7908 -- a Russian-made Tu...
Routing Taliban 'may take time' BBC News | "If we get it right, the Afghan people will turn the Taliban out" | The top military commander in the US, Adm Michael Mullen, says he does not know how long it will take for security to improve in Afghanistan. | He warned that the Taliban were "much more violent, much more organised...
Review | Afghan Star (Unrated) *** The Miami Herald | Early on in Afghan Star, director Havana Marking's engrossing documentary about the first season of Afghanistan's version of American Idol, the show's director and on-air host Daoud Sediqi says he hopes the program will take people's hands ''away f...
UK's Brown calls on Afghan army to pull its weight CNBC LONDON - By Luke Baker | Afghanistan needs to do far more to make its troops available on the ground if a U.S.-British offensive to secure territory ahead of elections is to succeed, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday. | Answering questions...
Taliban Threatens to Kill Captured US Soldier ABC News By AMIR SHAH Associated Press Writer | KABUL July 16, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press | Local Taliban commanders threatened Thursday to kill a captured American soldier unless the U.S. military stops operations in two districts of southeastern Afghani...
Taliban threatens to kill captured US soldier The Guardian | AMIR SHAH | Associated Press Writer= KABUL (AP) â Local Taliban commanders threatened Thursday to kill a captured American soldier unless the U.S. military stops operations in two districts of southeastern Afghanistan. | The Taliban claimed la...
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Iran plane crash black boxes recovered The Times | The black boxes from the Iranian airliner which crashed northwest of Tehran yesterday killing all 168 people on board have been recovered from the site, Iran television reported ...
July will be deadliest month for forces in Afghanistan The News & Observer | KABUL -- July is shaping up as the deadliest month of the Afghan war for U.S.-led international forces, with the number killed already matching the highest full-month toll of the...
Iran plane crash victims mourned Al Jazeera | Armenia has declared a national day of mourning after a Caspian Airlines jet flying to Yerevan, the Armenian capital, crashed in northwest Iran killing all 168 people on board. |...
Turkmenistan starts filling vast lake in the middle of its harsh Karakum desert Newsday | ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan has begun channeling water across hundreds of miles to create a lake in the heart of a barren desert, state media reported Thursday, in a Soviet-style engineering feat that some experts fear could un...
Turkmenistan creates vast lake in the desert Wtop By ALEXANDER VERSHININ | Associated Press Writer | ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) - Turkmenistan has begun channeling water across hundreds of miles to create a lake in the heart of a barren desert, state media reported Thursday, in a Soviet-style engin...
Lack of helicopters 'is costing lives in Afghanistan' The Times | The lack of helicopters available to British troops in Afghanistan is costing lives, MPs concluded today. | A report from the Commons Defence Committee concluded that more aircraft must be bought as a matter of urgency for the campaign and the Gove...
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 664 The News & Observer | As of Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at least 664 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT. | Of those, the military reports 496 were killed by hostile ...
Iran plane crash black boxes recovered The Times | The black boxes from the Iranian airliner which crashed northwest of Tehran yesterday killing all 168 people on board have been recovered from the site, Iran television reported today. | The Russian made Tupolev 154M of Caspian Airlines exploded it came down in farmland near the city of Qazvin about 15 minutes into the flight bound for Yerevan, A...
