Sentences with phrase «afghan conflict»

I may not be following Omar properly, but to say that anti-Muslim has increased since the 1990s because of «the context of the Afghan conflict» seems a bit superficial without mentioning 9/11 and other terrorist attacks by Muslims.

[Translate] Trump inherited the Afghan conflict but we needn't renew it to feed his ego.

Remember that detention without attempts to combat extremist ideology can result in hardened attitudes and a return to jihadist conflicts — for example in the US after the Afghan conflict.

Over time, however, diminishing returns set in and for Tony Blair and his successors it has become increasingly difficult for the Afghan conflict to pass this test.

Finally, resolution of Afghan conflict through political means requires that foreign troops should leave Afghanistan.

However, to keep Pakistan permanently engaged in the Afghan conflict resolution effort, greater progress in the India - Pakistan peace process will be needed — even though the near - term scope of the possibility for resolution of their core issues, such as Kashmir and cross-border terrorism, is quite limited.

Medicare is another key theme but regrettably the NDP have all but abandoned the Afghan conflict and the militarization of Canadian culture — presumably because the «support our troops» framing of the Conservatives is too difficult to reverse.

Doctors with his skills were in high demand as the Afghan conflict heated up, and in 2009 he went to Kandahar, where he became the last Canadian in charge of the Role 3 Multinational Hospital at Kandahar Airfield.

Not exact matches

Afghan journalists were shaken but defiant Tuesday, vowing to continue reporting on the bloody conflict after the deadliest attack on the country's media since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The danse macabre in the Middle East, the Israel - Palestinian conflict, the torrent of diabolic weapons showered by the U. S. for the use of Afghan rebels who first hung noble President Najibullah on a street pole and then indulged in mutual massacre flooding with blood the snow - white mountains (the sombre slaughter, even amidst natural calamities, is still unabated) and other holocausts baffle description.

«This intensified pattern of assassinations and executions reinforced the widespread perception of Afghan civilians that they are becoming more and more the primary target in this period of conflict,» Staffan de Mistura, the UN's special representative of the secretary - general, said.

«The devastating human impact of these events underscores that, nine years into the conflict, measures to protect Afghan civilians effectively and to minimize the impact of the conflict on basic human rights are more urgent than ever,» UNAMA's director of human rights Georgette Gagnon said.

At the book's heart is criticism of the incoherence of coalition strategy: the understandable dominance of US policy and resources, a policy driven by the Pentagon rather than the State Department; an Afghan government that lacked institutions or the ability to govern the provinces directly; Afghanistan's part in Pakistan's strategic conflict with India; and criticisms of the UK deployment to Helmand.

Predicting death To arrive at the model, Johnson and his colleagues noted the first two days with fatal attacks in any given conflict — whether it was an Afghan province or a Hezbollah suicide bombing in Israel — and the subsequent escalation of frequency with which the group executed successful attacks.

Of all the films to come out the conflict, Afghan Star is the most provocative, because its message that people are essentially the same is a dubious, double - edge sword.

While such a device works for the book, the film version never goes into any detail to explain the conflict between the two different tribes of Afghans and how that sparked much of the upheaval in the decades to come.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a more ambitious novel than The Kite Runner, with a wider and deeper historical and cultural scope that illuminates the last three decades of Afghan history during which the country has been inflicted by coups and counter-coups, an anti-Soviet jihad, civil war, warlord and Taliban tyranny, and post 9/11 conflict.

Steve McCurry, the legendary photojournalist behind National Geographic's 1985 Afghan Girl cover, captures moments of conflict and quietude in a landmark exhibit at Ayala Museum.

As a result, the Afghan lapis lazuli stone should now be classified as a conflict mineral.

Years of conflict and privation have done nothing to erode the Afghan sense of humor.»

Afghan Government and Parliament must address gaps in mining law to prevent conflict and corruption

He has also represented the Canadian Forces provost marshall before the Military Police Complaints Commission during the public interest hearings concerning the transfer of Afghan detainees by the Canadian Forces during the conflict in Afghanistan.

Given that much, if not most of the fighting against the Taleban is undertaken not by the Afghan armed forces but by the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), APII will not apply to much of the conflict in that country.

Tatham and Mackay, in a book on their initiatives, Behavioral Conflict: Why Understanding People and Their Motivations Will Prove Decisive in Future Conflict (2011), describe how they were used in the Afghan war.

Analyzed programs and plans of Coalition Forces and Afghan Forces to determine potential conflict with other ongoing operations and policies.