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Between 2003 and 2016, the US unloaded a huge amount of military hardware on the Afghan forces it fought alongside: 358,530 rifles of different makes, more than 64,000 machine guns, 25,327 grenade launchers and 22,174 Humvees (all-terrain vehicles), according to the US Government Accountability Report. Source link
Margaret Yeaman and Jennifer McNern were both injured in separate bomb attacks during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Jennifer lost both her legs after an IRA bomb explosion in 1972 and Margaret was blinded in an IRA bomb in Banbridge in 1982. In the years that followed, an unbreakable bond […]
The BBC has been speaking to people in Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city, with a population estimated to be more than 500,000. It’s a strategically important provincial capital in the west of the country, and is close to the borders with Iran and Turkmenistan. Residents said their lives had totally changed […]
Ida is forecast to be one of the strongest storms to hit Louisiana in 150 years. Source link
Italian coastguards rescue 539 people from a small fishing boat believed to have set off from Libya. Source link
The US is still airlifting civilians from Kabul airport but the UK has now ended evacuation flights. Source link
Soman Noori gives birth to baby girl Havva while flying to Birmingham, with no doctor on board. Source link
IS-K, a local branch of Islamic State, claimed responsibility for a deadly attack outside Kabul’s airport in Afghanistan on Thursday, which killed up to 170 people. The bomb blast came hours after Western governments had warned their citizens to stay away from the airport because of an imminent threat from […]
Police believe the woman was posing as a mourner to strip valuables from the recently deceased. Source link