Blog posts tagged "War"

August 25, 2010 3:48 pm 1 Comment

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on why it is hard for journalists to report on the increasingly violent drug war in Mexico

August 19, 2010 4:45 pm No Comments

The last US combat brigade has left Iraq, pulling troops out of the country two weeks earlier than President Obama's deadline. Channel 4 News's Tim Lambon, who was there the day US forces rolled into Baghdad, looks at the rapid drawdown, and Iraq's uncertain future.

August 12, 2010 3:05 pm 4 Comments

For too, too long now, local people have simply called it "the bloody river".

July 30, 2010 11:28 am 2 Comments

Some TV news channels will no doubt present the current Operation Tor Shezada (Black Prince), in southern Afghanistan in the same, ludicrous fashion as they reported Operation Moshtarak earlier in the year in Helmand. Or Operation Panther's Claw before that.

July 21, 2010 1:29 pm 1 Comment

The only supply route for the war in Afghanistan is perhaps the biggest moving target on earth, where troops, warlords and hired guns run the gauntlet daily, writes Channel 4 News' Nick Paton Walsh, embedded with US troops - whose hands are tied under 'courageous restraint'.

October 6, 2009 2:52 pm 3 Comments

The sad truth about the deaths of 8 US soldiers in Afghanistan this weekend is that they were not even meant to be in the remote military base that was attacked. They should have moved out months ago. Their commanders had been planning to pull out since Dec 2008 but various problems – from a [...]

August 17, 2009 8:46 am 1 Comment

Prose on the Afghan frontline, by Lindsey Hilsum: I had a book of World War II poetry with me while in Helmand with British troops.

August 7, 2009 9:39 am 7 Comments

If there were an internet cafe at the gates of hell, it might sound a little like the MWR on Forward Operating Base (FOB) Bostick. There is a quiet panic that seeps out in the silence, between the clatter of keyboards and the occasional snippet over IP telephones. A military base’s entire emotional complex sent [...]

March 6, 2009 5:15 pm No Comments

More thoughts on female journalists on the frontline, this time from the activist and writer Gloria Steinem. This is from a recent interview in Russia Today: Q: Now, the conference that you’re going to be key speaker of here in Russia is called “Building bridges across conflicts: the role of women journalists”. How can women build bridges differently [...]

11:57 am 3 Comments

Last night I chaired a panel discussion hosted by Amnesty International called “Women on the Frontline“. The idea was to get together women journalists who cover conflict to talk about their experiences and thoughts. My three colleagues – Marie Colvin, Ramita Navai and Christine Toomey – all thought that being a woman could only be advantage. [...]