Here are but a few stories from Afghanistan that you won’t have read in the past couple of months:
New bridge built over the Kokcha River, connecting the only major road in Badakshan.
Dozens of injured civilians transferred by NATO helicopters to military hospitals after a massive suicide bombing in Spin Boldak.
Senior Taliban commander captured in Gereshk.
An orphanage for 200 children, boasting the luxury of running water, opened in Farah province.
Ribbons cut on three skills development centres in Khak-e Jabbar and Bagrami.
Raid of a massive weapons and drugs cache in Uruzgan.
Insurgent mortar position destroyed in Kunar province.
New hospital and separate health clinic completed in Tarin Kowt.
Village medical outreach services provided to civilians by the provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Qalat.
Press releases of this nature, from the International Security Assistance Force, drop into my email basket every few days. They never make it into print. But accounts of Western soldiers killed, and most especially our own, are given elegiac cover, understandably so.
