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We are failing our heroes: Families of Afghan interpreters who served alongside British troops battling the Taliban STILL can’t get visas to come to UK The Government vowed in March last year that translators who helped British soldiers in the fight against the Taliban could bring their loved ones to join them Ministers said the … Read more
A suicidal Afghan war veteran revealed how he was talked down from jumping off a motorway bridge by a Good Samaritan – who then gave him a full-time job. Jason Verez, 31, was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder after seeing his comrades wounded while fighting the Taliban. Father-of-two Mr Verez served as an infantryman in … Read more
Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher was on a mission to investigate a Taliban compound near Sangin in Afghanistan in 2008 when he accidentally triggered a booby-trapped grenade. He and his men were heading back to base under cover of darkness when he stumbled into a four-metre tripwire linked to the explosive. Instead of running for cover, the … Read more
The acclaimed Fleet Street photographer John Downing MBE, who survived interrogation by Idi Amin’s special forces and documented war zones around the world, has died aged 79. Downing visited more than 100 countries including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Rwanda and Uganda during a distinguished career, bringing harrowing images of conflict to newspaper front pages in the UK. … Read more
Soldiers helping to build the Nightingale hospital in London last night compared the coronavirus crisis to the Battle of the Somme. Colonel Ashleigh Boreham, who has carried out two tours of Iraq and one of Afghanistan, said it was the biggest mission of his career. As commanding officer of 256 City of London Field Hospital, … Read more
The Taliban have pledged their readiness to cooperate with healthcare workers instead of killing them, as fear of a coronavirus epidemic spreads in Afghanistan. Whatever reservations the militants previously held over eradicating the crippling disease, they have now clearly grasped the dangers posed by the pandemic sweeping the rest of the world. In the past … Read more
Afghanistan war veteran, 50, ‘who could’ve been a general’ sues MoD for £1.5m over career-ending injury sustained in sniper rifle training Catherine Braddick-Hughes, 50, served in the Army for 22 years until 2018 She claims a shoulder injury received from a firing-range incident is to blame Ministry of Defence are disputing their liability for her … Read more
Finland has been named the happiest country in the world for the third year in a row by the World Happiness Report – and Afghanistan ranked the bleakest. The annual United Nations World Happiness Report ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be, according to their evaluations of their own … Read more
Horrifying moment an Australian SAS soldier shoots DEAD an unarmed Afghan man cowering in a wheat field in what’s been labelled a ‘straight up execution’ The footage was taken moments after a group of soldiers landed in a village Within three minutes of their arrival soldier shot an Afghan man three times The SAS soldier later … Read more
The little girl’s plight was enough to melt the hardest of hearts. Four-year-old Bru Ahmadi was living with her father in that squalid refugee camp near Calais known as The Jungle. Home was a small tent made of plastic sheeting draped over a rope strung between two trees. When it rained, the water found its … Read more