Steven Peters was deployed to Helmand Province in 2009, during a period which became known as the British Army’s bloodiest summer in more than 50 years. During one patrol, he witnessed an ...
At its peak in 2009, the U.K. had 9,000 troops in Afghanistan. The most significant contributions came from the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and Special Air Service, an elite regiment of the ...
“Because as they pointed out, when they were in Helmand Province, it's not like a conventional ... Naga: “It was about the British Army and Air Force, and it was about them evacuating British ...
Fusilier Louis Carter died in Helmand Province in August 2009, while trying to save another soldier. Clinic Drive, in the Riversley Park neighbourhood of Nuneaton where he grew up, will now be ...
Suddenly, the Taliban, with their AK-47s and tactics little changed from fighting the British ... back in Helmand for a second tour. Peek, a born fighter but now out of the Army, seems adrift ...
AFGHANISTAN: A US soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb yesterday during an operation in southern Helmand province. The US military said the attack on their patrol took place in ...