john chapman. james henderson. and james kirby. three british men, among seven aid workers killed in israeli air strikes this week. their bodies driven through the rafah crossing into egypt to be flown home to the uk. today, the head of their organisation spoke for the first time about what happened. they attacked the first car. they were able to movein the second one. again, this one was hit. they were able to move in the third one. in the process, we know they were trying to call. but in the chaos of the moment, whatever happened, they. to try to be telling idf that why are they doing, that they were targeting us, and then they hit the third one. under pressure to provide answers, israel has promised an investigation. i welcome what the israeli foreign minister said yesterday to me about a full, urgent and transparent inquiry into how this dreadful event was allowed to happen, and we want to see that happen very, very quickly. israel s army initially pointed to poor coordin
led nato mission in afghanistan, and nearly 20 year long mission, the united states is also using its air power to try to support afghan forces. this is a really, really tough fight. as you mentioned, most of helmand province and most of the districts across rural afghanistan are taliban hands. most of the city of lashka gha is in taliban hands. they re desperate to siege a provincial capital which will give them not just provincial capital which will give them notjust territory but provincial capital which will give them not just territory but a psychological boost but the word from the afghan forces is world is not over yet. borisjohnson has said levelling up the poorest parts of the uk should start with tackling crime. one of the areas worst affected is rhyl in north wales, where serious violence rose for four years until the first coronavirus lockdown. the town has some of the most
there s been reports of a powerful explosion in the cabell there s been reports of a powerful explosion in the our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet has the latest from the capital kabul. these are images which will not be easy to see four british soldiers who patrolled in the same streets for years and on the same squares in the city the taliban had been filming themselves there and in the besieged capital of helmand province the police headquarters coming under assault. the taliban are trying to attack the president. the taliban are trying to attack the president. prison. the afghan special forces who have been helicoptered in to reinforce special forces on the ground soldiers on the ground have been backed up by afghan war planes which have been bombing targets trying to push the taliban back. the united states as well in the last weeks of the united states led nato mission in afghanistan,
MADRID (Sputnik) - The last remaining Spanish servicemen in Afghanistan on Thursday returned to their homeland, the event was broadcast by the 24 Horas channel.
of the missouri. think of it like a forest fire. we ve con it atained it, we ve out the only flames. it s still smoldering. it would be very dangerous to walk away. sir, you re saying 85% has been eradicated, defeated and the like, could a much smaller could it be a draw down in syria? would you had agreed with that had the president just not pulled the plug on everything? absolutely not. we re already at the minimum. we ve only got 2,000 troops there, alex. as a point of comparison, we have 6,000 troops who are preparing for a fictional invasion on the southern border of the united states stringing barbed wire. only 2,000 troops there. when i commanded the nato mission in afghanistan, for example, we had 150,000 troops