Sentences with phrase «afghan officials»

She worked in close collaboration with senior Afghan officials and United Nations and other stakeholders in the international community to develop and recommend strategies for reform in the country.

A station wagon packed with Afghan civilians struck a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, triggering an explosion that killed 16 people, 11 of them children, Afghan officials said.

Read through a few of the follow - up reports included in yesterday's release and you will note references to transferred detainees who were subsequently released by Afghan officials.

US officials believe the movement has only 700 fighters, but Afghan officials estimate it has about 1,500.

NBC News reports that US and Afghan officials estimate the Taliban's strength in Afghanistan to be a minimum of 60,000 fighters.

An Afghan official told NBC News earlier this month that the Afghan estimate of Taliban strength is also 60,000.

An Afghan official, tasked with tackling government corruption, is the first to make a jibe at Cameron for his gaffe when speaking to the Queen.

She ends up coming across a gruff marine general (Billy Bob Thornton) who secretly respects her, a rival reporter (Margot Robbie) who shows her the ropes in Kabul, a Scud - stud - like Scottish correspondent (Martin Freeman) with whom she shares a nose for danger and a bed, an Afghan official (Alfred Molina) who might be the most ill - conceived character I have seen in a film in a long, long time, and, most memorably, an Afghan concierge (Christopher Abbott) who, in his understated and devout way, may care more about her than any of them.

The Taliban had destroyed all copies of Afghan official documents, leaving the Karzai government with very little documentation on which to base their legal system.

Not exact matches

That marks a significant increase from the estimate of 35,000 that Afghanistan's TOLOnews attributed to an Afghan defense official in 2011.

«These attacks caused untold human suffering to Afghan families,» said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan.

Explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 26 people on Monday, including nine journalists who had arrived to report on an initial blast and were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber, officials said.

Questions have been raised about how US officials apportion compensation in incidents where Afghan civilians are killed in US - led military operations.

While in Afghanistan, Skovlund interviewed servicemen of the Afghan military, intelligence officials, and even a US brigadier general.

This process requires a lot of face time with Afghan Ministry of Interior officials — such as the men Ménard went to visit in the dusty capital on Jan. 10.

Pressure was applied in both Kabul and Ottawa, where senior officials regularly broached the subject with the Afghan ambassador.

The documents also reveal that Afghan and Canadian officials tracked the suspect and that he was arrested and released a second time, even though intelligence officers had flagged him as a possible threat.

The documents — dating from 2006 to 2010 and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act — show officials getting increasingly exasperated with the Afghan government's lack of interest in investigating the crime.

«Afghan authorities should be helped to understand that we expect them to lead the investigation into this terrorist bombing in their country,» one official wrote in late 2007.

A U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, Martin O'Donnell, said Wednesday that Conde was carrying out an operation alongside Afghan forces against Taliban officials.

The U.S. believes an operation in North Waziristan is key to success in the Afghan war because the area serves as the main base for the Haqqani network — a militant group that military officials have said poses the greatest threat to troops in Afghanistan.

Two American troops were killed Thursday by a man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform, a U.S. official said, asking not to be named discussing casualties.

An official told The New York Times, American and Afghan troops had come under fire in the area and requested air support.

The front page Washington Post headline isn't sensational; it merely reads» Civilian, Military Officials at Odds Over Resources Needed for Afghan Mission.»

Women's rights must be included as a critical indicator of UK progress towards withdrawal, but steps must also be taken to ensure that Afghan women human rights defenders can hold their Government and its officials to account even after international troops leave.

At the event, Borough President Diaz presented President Rivlin with the official «Bronx Afghan» and named him an honorary Bronxite.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama and top Pentagon officials including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen are attending Tuesday's dignified transfer ceremony for 38 U.S. and Afghan personnel killed on board a helicopter shot down in Afghanistan over the weekend.

Maj. Jason Moncuse, back to camera on left, meets with actors portraying Afghan village officials.

Some of the best parts of The Taliban Shuffle are Barker's encounters with various Afghan and Pakistani high officials, all of whom are fairly eccentric characters.

She deployed to Afghanistan during this assignment where she worked with government officials and rural Afghan farmers, veterinarians and midwives to develop sustainable agriculture and public health programs.

This amounts to about $ 500 million less than under a business - as - usual scenario — and less than one - quarter of the $ 2.6 billion in earnings that some Afghan government officials have projected.