How To Use Afghanistan In A Sentence

Afghans say the mound where the Americans have made a base was once used by Alexander the Great, who defeated the local tribes of Afghanistan in the 4th century B.C. Since their arrival in April, the members of the 10th Mountain Division, 3rd Brigade, 25th Artillery, have been working to win over the local population rather than subjugate it. Making inroads in Afghanistan
The fact that your name adorned a jet over the skies over Afghanistan solidifies the bond all of us in the military share with the American people. CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2002
Success was to be defined as the exfiltration of Bin Ladin out of Afghanistan.28 A meeting of principals was scheduled for May 29 to decide whether the operation should go ahead. Think Progress » Report: Saddam and Al Qaeda Enemies, Not Collaborators
Cmdre Eric Lehre (ret'd) versus MGen Lewis MacKenzie (ret'd) on the subject of Canadians and NATO in Afghanistan. Welcome to 'maybe'
Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded. Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN

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Will this prolong the war in Afghanistan or shorten it? Times, Sunday Times
George Bush developed a policy, he annunciated it in a magnificent speech 10 days after 9 / 11, and then he went into a war in Afghanistan that everybody thought was going to be impossible.
While the generally liberal-leaning U.S. foreign policy establishment was quick to equate Obama's ascent to the presidency with a "new area of international engagement," the realities of realpolitilk has not only forced the President into a "straightjacket" with limited policy options vis-à-vis Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Sigurd Neubauer: Tea Partiers, Watch Out: Obama's Iran Policies Echo Bush's
In southern France, police arrested 12 suspects in sweeps against suspected Islamic militant networks, including three men linked to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan, officials said. World Watch
Islamabad: security forces killed 35 militants, on Tuesday in a military assault at tehsil lakarho and tehsil pindalai - mohmand agency, north-western tribal region of Pakistan, adjacent to Afghanistan. 35 militants killed in north-western Pakistan
Thanks in part to Iraq and Afghanistan, we are, decades later, backing off from this self-confident universalism. Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa | David Booth
Afghanistan in March 2003, 'af' was established as Afghanistan's domain name; Internet access is growing through Internet cafes as well as public "telekiosks" in Kabul (2002) The 2007 CIA World Factbook
Learning the motivation behind his mask and moniker is the tip of the iceberg in a story spanning the globe from the United Kingdom to war-torn Afghanistan to the drug war in Mexico. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Comic Book | My[confined]Space
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disabused us of this notion. The President's Risky Defense Strategy
• En route to Europe, Clinton called the multibillion-dollar American reconstruction effort in Afghanistan "heartbreaking," because she said there was little to show for it. ModerateVoters.org
Zuhra Bahman, a consultant from Kabul, said that urging Taliban fighters to give up arms and join the government will not amount to the democratization of Afghanistan. Experts: Mideast Turmoil Underscores Need for Afghan Political Reform
Horsemen compete for a goat carcass during a game of Buzkashi to celebrate Nowruz in Mazar-i Sharif in northern Afghanistan on March 21.
Bush/Cheney and company dicked around the Afghanistan conflict for almost eight years. Axelrod slams Romney
Moreover, Afghanistan is a landlocked nation bordering China, Iran and three Central Asian countries.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to seven French soldiers killed last week in Afghanistan, saying they fought in a just war against what he called the "tyranny" of the Taliban movement. Sarkozy: French Troops Killed in Afghanistan Fought Taliban's 'Tyranny'
By contrast, the marines spent three months patrolling Afghanistan without locating the enemy.
Outside armies have toppled Afghanistan's government and installed a new one, but it controls only its broken-down capital and very little of the vast country beyond.
American offices in Afghanistan admitted to me that they used the word insurgent in all their reports to describe any kind of hostile shooting. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
He goes on to talk about the Pentagon's ongoing, undebated plans not only to keep bleeding our treasury in Iraq (and, I would add, Afghanistan), but also to keep spending billions to design and build Cold War-era weapons "that lack not only a current military need but even a plausible use in any foreseeable future. Robert Koehler: Cross of Irony
Obama was hawkish about Afghanistan during the campaign, despite well-aired fears that Afghanistan is a quagmire-in-waiting. War: Politics and Power
A leading opponent of the war in Afghanistan took on Foreign Office minister Peter Hain in a debate in Brighton last week.
Last year the head of the Army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, warned that a lack of public appreciation for Britain's military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan was in danger of "sapping" the willingness of troops to serve on dangerous operations. Archive 2008-05-01
If the U.S. took advantage of a power vacuum in Afghanistan and installed Pershings there, the Soviet Union's Central Asian assets would be threatened. Moscow vs. the Mujahideen
Various countries pledged soldiers, bases and funds to the war in Afghanistan.
We are all aware that the Obamas have a wonderful marriage, and his uxoriousness is the talk of all the women's magazines; but is she really influential when it comes to surging in Afghanistan; bombing Iran; and the political haggling over taxes? Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The thing Matt hasn’t pondered is this: had prosecutions been pursued, then Obama’s policy of massive drone bombings in Afghanistan – that kill civilians right and left – would have led to prosecutions after his team leaves office as well. Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
In Afghanistan she had only a single day in which no patients arrived. Times, Sunday Times
Afghanistan has long pressed the U.S. to tackle what it calls the bases of terrorism in Pakistan, and Obama's reported pledge will likely please Karzai, who has accused Pakistan's intelligence service of supporting the Taliban in plotting bombings and other attacks in Afghanistan - claims that Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in its war on terror, flatly denies. Top Stories - Google News
The United States and its coalition partners had similar legal authority in the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and during the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
The bombing of wedding parties reveals much about the directionless and aimless war in Afghanistan.
It is commonplace, she reports, for formerly AWOL soldiers to be "bribed" with offers of having all charges, or potential charges, dropped, as long as they accept deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Dahr Jamail: Where Will They Get the Troops? Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front
Japan's major past overseas missions -- including in Iraq, near Afghanistan, and as UN peacekeepers -- have been largely for logistical and support purposes such as refuelling, transport and reconstruction. Undefined
Contracted police trainers often cannot or will not operate in nonpermissive environments, thus confning their training to the capital city or secure areas while leaving unsecured remoter areas of a country without desperately needed police trainers and mentors, as is often the case in Iraq and Afghanistan today. David Isenberg: The Liability of Using a PMC to Do Foreign Police Training
KABUL -- A new report that shows civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan largely because of increased insurgent violence was thrown into relief Tuesday when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed two other Afghans outside a foreign guesthouse in central Kabul. U.N. report links spike in Afghan civilian casualties to insurgent attacks
President Elect Obama tells us after over five years and thousands of mistakes and lies, the occupation of Iraq is going so "swimmingly" (the "surge" worked myth) that we can afford to send troops from there to the new righteous war, Afghanistan. Warfare Reform
• When AGNA could not acquire a sample of a certain explosive to test canines, DS changed the contract standards so that the canines would not be have to be tested to detect this particular explosive, which is available in Afghanistan. David Isenberg: At Least They're Not Doing Vodka Butt Shots Anymore
For wounded civilians at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan, the gatekeeper is God. The Doctor’s War
But with the holiday coming Wednesday, TV football now seems unusually full of salutes the U.S. military — led by Fox's two-hour NFL pregame being staged from the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan Sunday. Fox, ESPN take shows to military
If we hadopen government and could watch their every move, we wouldnot be at war in Afghanistan or Iraq andour national security would be in good shape and we would not have had anyof the wars of US terror today. by OpEdNews - Diary: 22,000,000+ Missing Emails
There is an irony to Gates' mission in Afghanistan: it was he who led the effort in the 1980's to support the anti-Soviet Mujahedeen, some of whom have since morphed into America's worst enemies.
In Afghanistan, less than 10% of weapons dropped were unguided.
A group of Japanese archeologists plans to excavate an archaeological site in central Afghanistan that may have been an important center of Buddhism.
The new minister is openly defending the interests of the Pashtun society and believes that the external fighting being waged from the border areas and Afghanistan can be settled through traditional "jirga" (negotiations) that bring together the government, elders and clerics and civil society. Pakistan Shifts the War on Terrorism
Denisov, and deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin on a wide range of bilateral andinternational issues, including situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Daily News & Analysis
Click to read. pd, 69 Bush stories and 0 ny terror stories, 0 afghanistan stories is good? Think Progress » Dobbs Defends His Birther Advocacy: ‘Seems To Me Still A Perfectly Commonsense Question’
The move came a few days after the website published thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan. Times, Sunday Times
Robson said discussions would take place about the form that diplomatic relations with Afghanistan would take.
The fear is of a repetition of the 1992 events when groups which now make up the Northern Alliance captured Kabul from Afghanistan's last pro-Moscow government but then wrecked it with internecine warfare.
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. Oh, Good « Gerry Canavan
BLITZER: What do you say to the president who spoke about what he called your pet spending projects -- money that has nothing to do with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, but for fishermen, peanut storage, spinach farmers, the milk industry -- that you've attached all this -- this other funding into this legislation, which has nothing do with the emergency spending needed for the war? CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2007
Though it doesn’t get nearly the attention his political activism does, Franken was participating in USO tours long before it was fashionable among Democrats, and has kept it up with trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, despite his opposition to the war (though he did not initially oppose it). He’s Not Joking
But that -- as you said, there is a lot increase in violence in Afghanistan, and that's really blamed on an insurge of -- increase in Taliban activity. CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2006
Associated Press Writers = KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote. The Guardian World News
During some centuries India, as a political region, was not delimitated on the north-western side as it is at present and numerous principalities rose and fell which included Indian territory as well as parts of Afghanistan. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
Organizers are especially interested in talking with 10 freshmen House members that a prominent Tea Party-affiliated group has identified as persuadable on the question of continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan: GOP Lawmakers Planning Meeting To Explore Alternatives In Afghan War
American officers in Afghanistan admitted to me that they use the word insurgent in all their reports to describe any kind of hostile shooting. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
In Afghanistan, mounted cavalry charges sometimes achieved what guided missiles could not.
Pakistan is a key supply route for fuel, military vehicles, spare parts, clothing and other non-lethal supplies for foreign troops in landlocked Afghanistan. Pakistan To Reopen Border Crossing That NATO Uses
Mr. Assange believes his leaks, like the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers, will radically change perceptions of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which he says he is trying to end," editorialized the Washington Post. Journalism Scoops WikiLeaks
He kind of backtracked and said I don't mean to draw a straight line between Hillary Clinton's vote for the war in Iraq and what happened in Pakistan today, but he did make the same argument that Obama has been making about diverting resources away from getting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan because of the war in Iraq and he did not back off of that. CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2007
When the USSR finally pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, the US was presented with a great opportunity to help the Afghan people and to gain some long-term goodwill towards the US. David Wallechinsky: Why Do They Hate Us?
In mid-March, as a White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan was nearing completion, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met in a secure Pentagon room for their fortnightly video conference with Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Kabul. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 17, 2009
It's not just that they think Europe is bang next door to Afghanistan.
Dr. Shroder is an active geoscientist with plentiful research experience in South Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan), the Middle East and Africa. Contributor: John Shroder
Forests are more than trees, of course, and along with its timber Afghanistan is at risk of losing its wolves, snow leopards, bears, and foxes, as well as alpine ruminants like Marco Polo sheep and ibex.
The NIE now confirms what was reported last week: the al-Qaeda we failed to finish off in Afghanistan and Pakistan has 'regenerated' and remains intent on attacking us at home," said Biden. Bob Geiger: Bond Continues Misleading Constituents About Iraq
Pashtun in the northern regions of Afghanistan enjoy buzkashi, or ‘goat pulling,’ a game in which men on horseback compete for possession of a dead goat or calf.
Scattered around the airstrip are some of Afghanistan's 10 million landmines, which every day leave innocent civilians limbless.
Sixth, the absence of any engagement with Iran leaves the United States over-dependent on Pakistan for influence in Afghanistan.
A member a nomadic Turkic people inhabiting Turkmenistan and neighboring areas in Iran and Afghanistan.
Testing by the VA found 44,500 of 570,000 Iraq and Afghanistan vets had suffered what it called mild traumatic brain injuries. For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War
-- Afghanistan and Pakistan "to stabilize the security situation;" in fact, a major effort may be undertaken to destabilize it as part of a broader agenda to stoke violence, increase Washington's presence in the region, double US forces in Afghanistan to 60,000 or more according to recent reports, and "Balkanize" each country, Iraq and possibly Syria into separate autonomous states; and Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine
Despite the fact that nature has been harsh and cruel to Afghanistan it has been generous in bestowing bounties of sorts.
German officials said Thursday the 21-year-old temporary letter sorter with the postal service has admitted targeting Americans when he opened fire with a handgun on a busload of 15 U.S. airmen at Frankfurt's airport on their way to deployment in Afghanistan, killing two and wounding two more. German airport shooting suspect recently radicalized
Fred Phelps and other family members who make up most of the Westboro Baptist Church have picketed many military funerals to draw attention to their view that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are God's punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Supreme Court OKs anti-gay church's picketing at funerals
Today, Pakistani intelligence assets on the ground and American drones in the air hunt Kashmiri relentlessly in the ungoverned tribal areas near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
It is a measure of the president's continued pulling power that the Europeans, who have seemingly grudged every extra pair of boots the NATO secretary general has persuaded them to dispatch up until now, are to stump up around 7,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan alongside the 30,000 more committed by a president who has now more than doubled the U.S. contingent there. How is Obama being viewed in Europe?
Instead of an entente cordiale of mutual admiration, he has faced awkward questions about Afghanistan troop levels, Turkey-phobia, and the French nuclear arsenal.
Earlier this year, police arrested a group accused of planning to attack the U.S. Embassy and another group in the southern city of Adana, which is home to the Incirlik Air Base used by the United States to transfer noncombat supplies to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Seattle Times
When civilian family members are actually killed in Afghanistan, their relatives do, in fairness, get greater solatia payments than cans of beans and Hershey bars. Afghanistan war logs: Secret CIA paramilitaries' role in civilian deaths
By not taking on this issue head-on to explain why this intervention has nothing to do with the colonial past or the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which asked for military intervention as Libyans have, Obama allowed Gaddafi's crude anti-imperialist and anti-crusader propaganda to stand. Joe Lauria: "Time and Space" for Libyan Rebels
In that interview, Mr. Karzai said he has ma jor interests in Afghanistan's only cement factory and a housing development outside the southern city of Kandahar, where U.S. and Afghan forces are making a push against the Taliban. U.S. Presses for Kabul Bank Probe
If the top mastermind is in Yemen, what the hell are we doing building a quagmire in Afghanistan? Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 9, 2010
There is a tendency amongst patriots and pro-armed forces bloggers to see any opposition to Afghanistan as a bunch of conchy lefties whining about the brave boys and girls defending our country. [support out troops] get out of this political mire
The straight-talking Texan may have made it easier for Europeans to blame their lack of support on U.S. "unilateralism" -- even where there was multilateral agreement, such as on the "good war" in Afghanistan. The Limits of Hope
The chopper's pilot reported engine failure shortly before the craft went down today in southeastern Afghanistan.
Denmark's government is a staunch supporter of the Bush administration and has committed troops to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Also, Gates is "heartened" in terms of Afghanistan, where the Bush administration already returned around 500 detainees from Guantanamo to Afghan government custody — which has put about 200 on trial, with a "conviction rate about 80 percent. Away From The Numbers | ATTACKERMAN
It is the destruction of the Al Qaeda network and terrorist organizations with global reach, and, in the case of Afghanistan, the taking asunder -- that, sir, maybe that, asunder, that is not quite as good as eviscerate -- but it has to do with taking down this illegitimate government of the Taliban that provides harbor to Al Qaeda. CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2001
The release of the Afghanistan documents in July led to sharp words of condemnation from the Pentagon, which accused the website of endangering the lives of Afghans who had aided the U.S. and exposing U.S. sources and methods. WikiLeaks Discloses Reports From Iraq
The sources said Al Qaida has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Infidel Bloggers Alliance
According to The Guardian, a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan is in preparation.
Up next, who do American reporters turn to for the real scoop in Afghanistan?
Following, an 8 minute trailer for the film, which is attempting to raise $5000 USD for distribution and promotion of the film, and also in subtitling the film to local languages and to be distributed in mobile cinemas throughout Afghanistan and other developing countries. Global Voices in English » IndieGoGo: fundraising for independent film-makers
L'option d'un déploiement français dans l'Est de l'Afghanistan aurait, selon Paris, l'avantage de faciliter la cohésion du dispositif militaire français, puisque c'est dans ces régions que sont déjà déployées quatre équipes françaises d'instructeurs militaires Operational Mentoring Liaison Teams, OMLT, chacune comportant 50 soldats insérés dans des unités de l'armée afghane... posted by Mark, Ottawa at 3:23 PM Afstan combat switcheroo?
I also lived 17 years overseas, in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia/East Timor, Egypt, Hong Kong and India; and have done the rounds of several low-budget insurgencies, plus the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia - so I know of what I speak. MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark
Last week again Afghanistan was subjected to the awesome destructive power of the zilzila.
Some 80 percent of non-lethal supplies for foreign forces fighting in landlocked Afghanistan are transported over Pakistani soil after being unloaded at docks in Karachi, a port city in the south. Pakistan Cuts NATO Supply Line In Apparent Retaliation For Killed Troops
As in, "The transverse occipital sulcus intersects the intraparietal sulcus near the level of the parieto-occipital fissure" and "The Sahara is in Afghanistan, I think." ... Boing Boing
He also asked India to "sympathise" with Pakistan's fight against terror as its army is fighting Taliban in the troubled northwest region bordering Afghanistan. WN.com - Articles related to Singapore eyes new links with Tamil Nadu
Rebecca NicholsonFor most of the near decade that British troops have been fighting in Afghanistan, the focus of their war has been Helmand, a region famous even among Afghans for the hostility of its terrain and the doggedness of its people. TV highlights 29/06/2011: Killer Tigers | Timeshift: Hotel Deluxe | Finding Amelia | The Apprentice | Afghanistan: The Battle For Helmand | 24 Hours in A&E
Ridiculed Obama "is confident to achieve victory in the war in Afghanistan, " the statement, saying good relations with the West even greater harm to the Palestinian Arab state.
Yet as we proceed in Afghanistan, even the most well considered of PowerPoint policy recommendations read like parodies of the social-scientist-in-uniform pitches that cloyed in the Vietnam jungles. Magic and Mayhem
Rebuilding the country will be much easier that recreating a nation in Afghanistan but at least give the US credit for making these moves.
Afghan lawmakers demand President Karzai submit full, not partial, Cabinet list for approval add Mexico (latinos/mexicans) to that list~ @bbcworld War-torn nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq remain the world's most corrupt Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
After nine years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are beginning to recognize age-old legacies of the battlefield -- once known as shellshock or battle fatigue -- as combat wounds, not signs of weakness. Michael Winship: Don't You Know There's a War On?
Will this prolong the war in Afghanistan or shorten it? Times, Sunday Times
The bar president, during a press conference here, said some 400 detenues are presently lodged in Kot Bhalwal jail which include some 30 men from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
More than 90,000 partially redacted intelligence reports chronicling the war in Afghanistan are published. Times, Sunday Times
His compilation is the first to cite a comprehensive list of specific war crimes in four categories — illegality of the decision to go to war, misconduct during war, mistreatment of prisoners of war, and misgovernment in the American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Matthew Yglesias » The Embrace
Unless that is done, any military success in Afghanistan will be a pyrrhic victory.
Iran-Israel Conflict a Growing Concern I was watching another youtubers video and grabed a screen-shot to show you, it says the Iran bomber drone is aimed at Israel. death to these shaytan parasts = taliban!! taliban beheading suicid bomber bombers afghan afghanistan madrassa islam muslim osama binladen al qaeda ramadan wahabi arab arabian world pashtun pashtunwali culture pathan tribal areas pakistan iran ahmadinejad kabul kandahar usa obama drones irak war WN.com - Articles related to Iran unveils bomber drone that aims to deliver peace and friendship
They include tribes on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, although the community has become increasingly urbanized in recent years.
A suicide bomber, reportedly wearing an Afghan Army Uniform, detonated explosives outside a military base near Jalalabad in Eastern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan will be given 200 new patrol vehicles to replace the much-criticised Snatch Land Rovers, it was revealed David Tyacke was the last officer on the staff of the Chindit HQ at Sylhet in WN.com - Articles related to New Zealand not to sign trade pact if US shuts out dairy
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan -- from where Al-Qa'eda plotted to attack us on 9/11 -- their hosts, the Taliban ( 'union of religious scholars') resurge from the mountains, to undo all of the progress we once made there. Sound Politics: Floyd McKay Flirts With Bigotry
So within these four parameters, one needs to crystallize the political dispensation that one would like to have in Afghanistan.
For the same reason that we continue to "pussyfoot" around in Iraq and Afghanistan .. Latest Articles
They have been used not only for air operations but for the training of a Stryker regiment, special forces and other combat units for "downrange" conflicts like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dandelion Salad
The U.S. government depends heavily on what it calls "contingency contracting" to support the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan. Report Finds Vast Waste in U.S. War Contracts
BLITZER: Because in Southeast Asia, which is India, Afghanistan and Pakistan, since 9/11, the U.S. has been pretty active there, you've got to admit. CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2009
The Afghanistan build up, Wall Street Bail Out versus Main Street and Single pay health reform are three issues which leave many Americans feeling betrayed, unlistened to and remorseful about Obama: Allen L Roland America Suffering Buyers Remorse With Obama
He's going to overwhelm you with wordage, with dates and supposed data, he's going to bore you into submission, and at the end you're going to throw up your hands and shout, I know Iraq and Afghanistan were not Don Rumsfeld's fault! The One That Got Away
A young mother has won her fight to prove that her fiancé fathered her daughter before he was killed in Afghanistan. Times, Sunday Times
The United States Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis issued a report last week suggesting that current political and economic conditions are energizing right-wing extremist groups, that many of these groups follow extremely conservative ideologies and that some may seek to recruit and "radicalize" veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Vox Verax
Keith said that although the United States does not have an extradition treaty with Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance was expected to accede to a request by the coalition to hand him over to U.S. authorities who want to question him.
On opposite sides of the country today, the presumptive presidential nominees will once again sharpen their positions on how to manage the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan if elected. The Early Word: 2 Candidates, 2 Visions for Iraq - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Analyst and newspaper editor Rashed Rahman says the central problem in the relationship is what he calls the "proxy war that the Pakistan military is waging through the Taliban in Afghanistan. News
Perhaps he would like to join our underpaid nurses or our troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Sun
A map of Afghanistan is pinned above the fridge and the names of the provinces and towns trip off Moler's tongue as though they were just across the Mississippi.
No serious thought, money, or effort goes into imagining how to unbuild the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan or how to voluntarily leave that country. Tom Engelhardt: Five Absurd Things That Simply Can't Happen in Wartime Washington
He says because George Bush, the president, has declared a crusade, what he called a crusade, against Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan, Iraq, that he cannot accept these U.S. lawyers. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2008
In 18 months he and his battalion will return to Afghanistan for their second tour. Times, Sunday Times
Shah smuggled a video camera into Afghanistan to secretly film the reality of life under the Taliban.
After the murder of his father Karzai inherited the title khan ( "head") of the 500,000-strong Popolzai — the Pashtoon clan of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the Persian army commander who conquered the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and in 1747 became the first king of Afghanistan. The Lawless Frontier
Meanwhile, units of the army mutinied, civil war broke out, cities and villages rose in revolt and Afghanistan began to slip away from Moscow's control and influence.
Events in Afghanistan serve as a spur for biographical flashbacks showing how Gen. Petraeus grappled with similar challenges in past commands. Measuring the Man in Charge
Basically, the task force fears that Canada is letting in too many immigrants from "Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt" who might exfiltrate to the United States. Blame Canada | ATTACKERMAN
A good analogue is the Bacha Bazi practised in Northern Pakistan and the increasingly lovely Afghanistan some of our best are dying to protect. Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
The veterans were mostly people who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Times, Sunday Times
How dare he publicly protest the occupation of Afghanistan? The Sun
A few years ago, the U.S. counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan began drawing historians and military officers to the hitherto obscure Moro War. An Insurgency and Its Lessons
They cite the killing and capturing of hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan and the elimination of the country as a base of operations for attacks against the West.
Food rations and special-forces commandos are being airlifted into Afghanistan.
• British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month• Get the Afghan civilian casualties data Afghanistan civilian casualties: year by year, month by month
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Many Canadians want us to leave Afghanistan and we will, inevitably, in 2011 as part of a multipartisan decision in Parliament, but where would we go after that? 2008 November 27 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
The sources said al Qaeda has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Israelated - English Israel blogs
Every week, there are major fiascoes in Afghanistan. William Bradley: Afghan War at 10, 9/11 at 10+: Did Osama bin Laden Win After All?
An official at the Afghanistan embassy is happy that the Afghan officials are informing the strategy review, and comments that the Karzai government looks "forward to forging ahead with a new coordinated and comprehensive regional strategy to overcome the joint challenges that Afghanistan and Pakistan face. All In Together Now | ATTACKERMAN
Parachute riggers from the 82nd Airborne Division in February conducted the first airdrop of fuel to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Yesterday the Prince appeared unruffled as he handed out medals for heroism in Afghanistan. The Sun
Speaking in staccato tones and gesticulating sharply, he calls for support of jihad to liberate the children of Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan. Radical Islam finds unlikely haven in liberal Britain
Divisional, brigade, battlegroup and company commanders with recent experience in Afghanistan and Iraq (and Kosovo, Bosnia and Northern Ireland) are posted into the MoD every week. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Defending the absurd notion that the windbaggery of Mr. Galloway is somehow a threat to our national security, a spokesperson for the virginal Jason Kenney, Alykhan Velshi, referred to Gorgeous George as "someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Archive 2009-03-01
A SEAL “breacher” named Brian A. emphasized that, before he blew open any door in Iraq or Afghanistan, he steadied his hands and the explosives he was handling “with four of the biggest, deepest, gut-filling diaphragmatic breaths a human being can possibly take, to flood my body with as much oxygen as possible.” Bravery (and How to Master It) « Isegoria
Three years later, on Sept. 11, 2001, Al Qaeda struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in an operation overseen from the base in Afghanistan. August 2005
We must employ a moderate form of tactics, but in order to, we must focus our attention in Afghanistan and fight a full-scale conflict, not only maintaining a small-scale conflict. Evening Buzz: Battle for Afghanistan – What’s Next?
Lute will [ oversee ] fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan.
Baseball might be America's favorite pastime, but in Afghanistan, national sports take on a more hematic flair. Inside The Strange, Bloody Sport Of 'Goat-Grabbing'
Neighborhood patrol: Pakistani troops patrol on tanks during a military operation on Jan. 2 in Jamrud, the gateway to the famed Khyber Pass linking Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pashto Pashto also known as Pakhto, Pushto, Pukhto‎, Pashtoe, Pashtu, Pushtu or Pushtoo is a language spoken by Pashtuns living in Afghanistan and western Pakistan. Planet-x.com.au » Afghan
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden, the Blitz, Coventry and Caen, the gas chambers and the gulags – with, more recently Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars in Africa – demonstrate, in particular, our leaders' propensities to hijack science for wholesale murder. Steven Pinker is wrong – we live in the bloodiest times ever | letters
There are two types: the former guerrilla fighters, known as the mujahedin, who battled the Soviets in the 1980s from the mountain hide-outs, and the Afghans who were sent after their brethren as soldiers in the old Soviet-backed Afghanistan army. Marine Corps Times - News
Without ratification, we put at risk the coalition that we have built to put pressure on Iran, and the transit route through Russia that we use to equip our troops in Afghanistan.
Unless we can bring order and some measure of prosperity to Afghanistan, without having our own troops "decimated" -- we can't really declare a victory there either. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
He said his top priority is to "maintain the momentum" on the battlefield by continuing to pursue the Taliban, especially in what he called the decisive terrain of southern Afghanistan that has been the Taliban's power base. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Her pain is a reminder of the very dangerous but important job our troops are doing and their valiant efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan. The Sun
Mr. Ozawa argues that Japan's deployment supports a "unilateralist" and "illegal" war by the United States in Afghanistan. Tokyo Retreat
Now the Bushite junta is holding him for “aiding terrorism” (because he traveled to Pakistan or Afghanistan I forget which). Think Progress » Conservative Judge Argues Bush Adminstration Lacks Credibility
Air drops of food were also, MSF argued, a last option as there was no guarantee that food would get into the hands of the most needy people, and collection was dangerous as Afghanistan was heavily mined.
The wildlife zoologist Richard Harris says the poaching was as vital to the local economy as opium cultivation in Afghanistan or coca growing in Colombia.27 Just as in those cases, the blame for the illegal trade ultimately rested with rich Western consumers who buy expensive shahtoosh shawls. When a Billion Chinese Jump
Al Qaeda tried to infiltrate one privatized military field kitchen, in Afghanistan.
He was captured in Afghanistan and arrived at Guantanamo Bay in January 2002 as a slight, baby-faced 26-year-old.
We take all reports of non-combatant casualties very seriously and investigate these claims with the assistance of our Afghan forces counterparts," said Lt.Col. Rick Helmer, U.S. Forces Afghanistan spokesperson. Proceed With Caution | ATTACKERMAN
Less than half of the $5 billion pledged at an international donors conference for Afghanistan has turned up.
Early indications suggest Afghanistan could see a further increase in opium production in 2007, the report said. Archive 2007-06-01
According to the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf confirmed the statement of the Taliban chief in which he praised the people of Afghanistan for what he called foiling the American drama by avoiding participation in the American-manipulated elections. Undefined
How dare he publicly protest the occupation of Afghanistan? The Sun
The Taleban did, at least initially, gain the trust and support of peace thirsty Afghans, and members of the international community were also 'romanticized' by the Taleban's approach for bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan - although the Taleban's methods for bringing stability included the implementation of a very harsh form of Sharia Law. Michael Hughes: No Peace without Justice and Equality in Afghanistan
You (and Obama) are making an unwarranted extrapolation from the fact that bin Laden happened to be operating in Afghanistan at the time of 9/11. Matthew Yglesias » America Needs More Realistic Aspirations in Afghanistan
Russia now allows hundreds of overflights and thousands of railroad cars to pass through its territory, carrying cargo for the NATO war effort in Afghanistan. Next Kyrgyzstan Government Expected to Keep US Base
Members of the Royal Marines who are preparing to leave their base at Arbroath to serve in the rocky terrain of Afghanistan will find themselves a long way from their watery origins.
The U.S. warrant accuses Aswat of conspiring with others between October 1999 and April 2000 to set up a camp in Bly, Ore., aimed at training and equipping individuals to "fight jihad in Afghanistan," police said in a statement. 08/07/2005
Perusing the liberal press, I am struck by the mixture of utter confusion, self-absorption, cynicism and sheer ignorance which characterizes the commentary on the war in Afghanistan.
But most of Sherzad's designs are hitting the overseas market - in fact, 90 percent of her apparel is sold outside of Afghanistan. Afghan Fashion Hits London's High Street
Between braving our savage hound and three tours to Afghanistan in four years, I reckon our postie Dave has earned a copy. A Bit of a Grumble « Tales from the Reading Room
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MORE than 10,000 wellwishers gave a rousing reception yesterday at our biggest homecoming parade for troops returning from Afghanistan. The Sun
Already, we are witnessing the emergence of this shift in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But the U.S. Army is stretched so thin that it's continually extending the tours of duty of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and morale is suffering.
When Sakena Yacoobi was a child in Herat , Afghanistan, she saw many women suffer.
The State Department terminated a nonclassified MVM contract guarding the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2005, citing inadequate personnel in that case as well. Iraq Case Sheds Light
ABDUL SATTAR, PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER: The Pakistani delegation -- at a high level -- will be conveying to the Taliban government of Afghanistan the imperative of compliance with security council resolutions, both those that have been adopted in the past and the one that was adopted on the twelfth of September. CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2001
The Taliban's promise - in Pashtun areas straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan - was to restore peace and security and enforce their own austere version of Sharia, or Islamic law, once in power.

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