Northern Alliance

How To Use Northern Alliance In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.
• The fact that he’s a thoroughly corrupt (or at least incredibly blind) corporate tool more interested in currying favour with power brokers in the West than with his former allies in the Northern Alliance isn’t helping matters. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 29, 2010
• Based on training, initiative, and fieldcraft, they possessed the ability to knit together new tactical techniques integrating an air operation and special forces with an indigenous formation, the Northern Alliance.
• In addition, both the Taliban and Northern Alliance may have engaged in more traditional types of mine warfare and existing minefields may have shifted or expanded and new ones been laid.
• ZAHN: Another concern that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld now has expressed is his concern about what he described as mounting lawlessness in Afghanistan and he said the U.S. military faces a long and difficult fight even in towns and cities already seized by the Northern Alliance. CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2001
• We co-opted the independent minority tribes by pulling them into the Northern Alliance
• WOLFOWITZ: We started in April with the notion of attriting (ph) the Taliban by assisting the Northern Alliance. CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2004
• Muslims in Afghanistan aligned with the Northern Alliance were hoping for a particular parliamentary system.
• New Alliances: A Taliban defector and a Northern Alliance soldier, share a ride.