Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old specialist in combat stress who had been ordered to deploy to Afghanistan against his will, shot dead 13 people in Fort Hood, USA. Today's Focus looks at how this tragedy happened.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France suspects Guinea's military leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was involved in last week’s deadly crackdown on an opposition rally at a Conakry football stadium.
Italy held a ceremony at Ciampino Airport in Rome Sunday, as the bodies of the six soldiers who died in a suicide attack targeting NATO troops in Kabul arrived home. On Saturday, a separate ceremony took place in Kabul.
In a statement posted on a website frequently used by the Taliban, Mullah Omar, the movement’s reclusive leader, purportedly urged Afghans “not to be deceived” by US President Barack Obama’s justifications for the war.
Soldiers from 40 nations paid silent homage to the six Italian soldiers killed in Thursday’s attack at a somber ceremony in Kabul Saturday. The bodies of the slain troops are on their way home for Monday’s funerals.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said that Italy is looking into reducing its presence in Afghanistan after six Italian soldiers died in a suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan.
Mark Malloch-Brown (pictured), a junior foreign minister who has handed in his resignation, has said that UK troops in Afghanistan need more helicopters, fuelling criticism of Prime Minister Gordon Brown over inadequate resources for troops.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates announced Monday a temporary increase in the troop strength of the US Army by up to 22,000 soldiers over the next three years to cope with the continuing demands of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended his country's strategy in Afghanistan, after eight British soldiers, including a senior officer (pictured), died there on Friday, in the UK's worst loss of life for a 24-hour period.
