The UK’s commander in Helmand, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, has said that we shouldn’t expect a decisive military victory in Afghanistan; I wholeheartedly agree. He should have added that there was never going to be a military victory in Afghanistan.
Setting up the Afghan government was never going to be enough, either. The international community needs to [...]

According to the BBC, Corporal Tomos Stringer, of the Royal Logistics Corps, was refused a room in a hotel when, on leave to recover from an injury sustained in Afghanistan, he was visiting a fellow soldier who had been injured.
The hotel in question, the Metro, apparently has had problems with rowdy soldiers in the past. [...]