Swedish soldiers are to be taught how to shimmy up trees in the proper fashion in case they need to salvage unmanned drones caught in canopies. Read the full story

Iceland’s former foreign minister, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, is on her way to Afghanistan to take up a United Nations position. Read the full story

The Norwegian ambassador to Afghanistan has stirred up a storm of controversy by writing in a Foreign Ministry blog about his efforts to train his cook in Kabul to make him fancy French food. Read the full story

Politicians and military officials voiced their concerns about Finland’s role in Afghanistan this week as the body of a soldier killed in a car bomb attack arrived back on home soil. Read the full story

A Danish officer says the military has been sitting on pictures showing the abuse of Afghani prisoners by American soldiers for five years. According to reports on the information provided to the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee by defence minister Gitte Lillelund-Bech, the senior army official said he viewed the “Abu Ghraib-like” images on a CD in 2005. Read the full story

Spokesmen from the whistleblowing website Wikileaks say they will publish more classified documents despite orders from the American authorities not to. Wikileaks has been the centre of a great deal of media attention since it published secret American military documents about the war in Afghanistan. Read the full story

The American Department of Defence today issued an order for Wikileaks to hand over the rest of the secret documents it says it has yet to publish about the war in Afghanistan. Read the full story

The Finnish military is preparing to hire a troop of psychologists and therapist to help soldiers returning from Afghanistan with mental health problems. According to national daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, a Defence College study found that more than half of all military personnel returning from peacekeeping and crisis management missions experienced domestic disputes and stress-like symptoms within weeks of getting home. Read the full story

(updated and corrected 21.07) Icelandic ambassadorial diplomat, Thordur Aegir Oskarsson, has assumed the role of special representative for political affairs at the NATO headquarters in Afghanistan. He will furthermore be  mission head Mark Sedwill’s stand-in. Read the full story

Nine Danish soldiers have tried to take their own lives in the last 12 months since returning home from Afghanistan. Read the full story