A damning report into the role of private security companies in Afghanistan, including the multimillion-pound British ArmorGroup, was issued tonight by the US Senate armed services committee. Much of the focus of the report is on ArmorGroup's contract to provide security at an airbase. The report claims that the company hired Afghan warlords to provide security and that at least one was alleged to
On a hillside high above the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, the Zaisan Memorial commemorates the soldiers who lost their lives in World War II. Mongolians helped the Soviets defeat the Nazis and, for decades after, Moscow's influence was strongest here. But these days China pours more money into this country than any other does. Some of it is aid. Some of it is investment. China's People's Liberati
Once again, ultra-nationalists have emerged from an impoverished economy and turned upon outsiders. This time the main targets come from China, the rising power to the south. Groups such as Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika, portray themselves as patriots standing up for ordinary citizens in the face of foreign crime, rampant inequality, political indifference and corruption. But critics say they s
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