Recently in Afghanistan Category

Reuters is reporting that the Taliban have started answering queries submitted to an online forum on their website.Questions have been asked on topics ranging from the Taliban's negotiations with the United States to their position on educating girls.The Taliban banned......more

Major Paul Smyth is one of the people responsible for changing the Ministry of Defence's approach to social media particularly in the context of front line operations. I've spoken to him previously for the Frontline Club about his Frontline bloggers......more

The Chief of the Defence Staff gave an annual lecture to the Royal United Services Institute last night. General Sir David Richards spoke broadly about the global environment, the response of the armed forces and particular strategic challenges.He argued that......more

I am picking out a few of the more interesting links from my 2011 delicious bookmarks. On Monday, I selected five from my 'war reporting' tag. Today, I've selected another five from among the bookmarks I labelled 'Twitter' in my delicious account.  Enjoy! ......more

This year I bookmarked at least 530 links on delicious. I know that because I try to tag each bookmark by year - I'm three hundred or so links down on last year's total of 854. Seeing as we're coming......more

For many journalists, the iPhone has become a standard part of the toolset. But it's also being tested to the limit by war reporters.  A couple of interesting experiments from Afghanistan caught my eye this morning documenting ventures in the......more

Teru Kuwayama is embedded with the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, but he's not there with a traditional media organisation. He and a team of photographers are using funds from a Knight Foundation grant as part of an experimental project......more

The video below describes the story of America's first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam war. Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta was awarded the United States highest military honour for rescuing a captured colleague in the Korengal......more

Journalist Abbas Daiyar has an interesting blog post on this month's decision by the Afghan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority to close 17 Internet cafés in the capital. The cafés had been warned not to allow their customers to view pornography or......more

British forces have handed over responsibility for security in Sangin, Afghanistan to their U.S. counterparts. More than a hundred British soldiers lost their lives in the district.As part of their research for last night's coverage of this story, BBC Newsnight......more