Veterans who rescued Afghan interpreters bring Canadian Forces interpreters out of Ukraine
The day Russian warplanes thundered over her family’s eighth-floor apartment in Sumy, Sofia Postolatii knew it was time to leave.
There were tanks in the Ukrainian city, and the air raid sirens wailed three times a day…
How a Canadian interpreter escaped Kabul, with little help from Ottawa
When I answered the phone, all I heard was the staccato of rapid gunfire. The call was from a Canadian I’d been corresponding with in Afghanistan. I’ll call him Hamid, because even publicly mentioning his actual first name could get him killed by the Taliban…
How a guy known as 'Canadian Dave' helped get 100 people out of Afghanistan in final days of Taliban takeover
For David Lavery, the fall of Afghanistan comes with a soundtrack of men yelling, women weeping and babies wailing — all coalescing into a din of despair that echoes in his mind.
That cacophony surrounded him in the days after the Taliban took the Afghan capital, as the former soldier walked the perimeter of the Kabul airport searching for the Canadians and Afghan allies he was tasked with evacuating….
In the wake of a deady bombing at an upscale market in Kabul, Susan Ormison examines the impact of insurgent attacks on civilians and foreigners in Afghanistan’s capital city.
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