Brian Rohan, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

A damaged clinic is seen after airstrikes in Lashkar Gah city of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Airstrikes in southern Afghanistan damaged a health care clinic and high school in the capital of Helmand province, a provincial council member said Sunday. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

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Taliban take key northern Afghan cities

by Rahim Faiez Associated Press, and Brian Rohan Associated PressAugust 8, 2021

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters seized most of the capital of northern Afghanistan’s key Kunduz province on Sunday, and took another neighboring provincial capital after a monthlong siege. The advances were the latest in a series of blows to…

Women line up to enter a polling station during the first day of the presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, March 26, 2018. Egyptians head to the polls on Monday but the presidential election this time is not about who wins — that was settled long ago — but about how many people bother to cast ballots.

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Egyptians vote, with President el-Sissi certain winner

by Maggie Michael Associated Press, and Brian Rohan Associated PressMarch 26, 2018

Abdallah Abdel Nasser, 14, receives medical treatment at Suez Canal University hospital in Ismailia, Egypt, Friday, after he was in injured during an attack on a mosque.

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Egypt: Militants kill at least 235 in attack on Sinai mosque

by Ashraf Sweilam Associated Press, and Brian Rohan Associated PressNovember 24, 2017

A boy rides his bicycle past a recently discovered statue in a Cairo slum that may be of pharaoh Ramses II, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday.

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Egypt archaeologists discover massive statue in Cairo slum

by Brian Rohan Associated PressMarch 10, 2017

Iranian civil defense personnel search for survivors in the rubble, at the scene of a car bomb attack near the city of Hilla about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. A car bomb tore through a gas station on Thursday, killing and wounding scores of people, including 20 Iranians Shiite pilgrims, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Death toll in Iraq bombing claimed by IS rises to 73

by Brian Rohan Associated Press, and Murtada Faraj Associated PressNovember 25, 2016

An Iraqi special forces soldier, foreground, asks a man to take off his jacket to check that he is not wearing an explosive belt, in the Al-Samah front line neighborhood, in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016. An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition on Wednesday "disabled" the fourth bridge on the Tigris River in Mosul, leaving the northern Iraqi city with a single functioning bridge, according to the Iraqi military and the Islamic State's media arm. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Hundreds of Iraqis flee Mosul

by Brian Rohan Associated Press, and Qassim Abdul-Zahra Associated PressNovember 23, 2016

Peshmerga 1st Sgt. Ayub Mustafa holds part of a defused bomb planted by Islamic State militants in Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. Iraqi troops inched ahead in their battle to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State group on Friday, as the U.N. revealed fresh evidence that the extremists have used chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)

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Iraqi troops inch ahead on Mosul, UN recounts IS atrocities

by Adam Schreck Associated Press, and Brian Rohan Associated PressNovember 12, 2016

In this Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 frame grab from video, an Iraqi federal police officer holds a stuffed toy at the site of a mass grave in Hamam al-Alil, Iraq. Investigators are probing the mass grave that was discovered the previous day by troops advancing further into Islamic State-held territory near the city of Mosul. Associated Press footage from the site shows bones and decomposed bodies among scraps of clothing and plastic bags dug out of the ground by a bulldozer after Iraqi troops noticed the strong smell while advancing into the town of Hamam al-Alil. (AP Photo)

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Investigators probe mass grave outside Mosul

by Brian Rohan Associated PressNovember 8, 2016

Displaced people who fled from Islamic State held-territory sit outside a mosque guarded by Iraqi soldiers in Shuwayrah, south of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. The U.N. human rights office is lauding efforts by the U.S.-led coalition in the battle against the Islamic State group in Mosul. The office in Geneva says coalition flights over Iraq have largely succeeded in preventing IS from bringing in 25,000 more civilians to the city center, where the militant group has been using people as human shields as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Major urban warfare lies ahead in Mosul

by Qassim Abdul-Zahra Associated Press, and Brian Rohan Associated PressNovember 1, 2016

FILE - In this Friday, May 20, 2016 file photo, The Imam of al Thawrah Mosque, Samir Abdel Bary, gives condolences to Tarek Abu Laban, center, who lost four relatives, all victims of EgyptAir plane crash, following prayers for the dead, at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Human remains retrieved from the crash site of EgyptAir Flight 804 suggest there was an explosion on board that may have brought down the aircraft in the east Mediterranean, a senior Egyptian forensics official said on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

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Forensic expert sees signs of explosion in EgyptAir crash

by Sam Magdy Associated Press, and Brian Rohan Associated PressMay 24, 2016