Sentences with phrase «afghan soldiers»

In Afghanistan U.S. soldiers conduct month - long Explosive Hazard Reduction courses to train Afghan soldiers about how IEDs work, the threats they pose and techniques for finding them.

Reconstruction was more likely to be done in Afghan soldiers or civilians.

He also wants to train up Afghan soldiers, so a local and national government system can be properly established before troops leave.

The change in strategy comes amid 51 Nato casualties this year as a result of attacks from serving Afghan soldiers or police.

An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS» Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS - K).

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, A two - star general from the Capital Region, became the highest - ranking American military officer to be killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War on Tuesday when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. and coalition leaders touring a military academy in Kabul.

Based on a declassified report on US special forces» activity at a base in Gardez, Afghanistan, a 2014 series of paintings explores the story of Jamal Nasser, an 18 - year - old Afghan soldier who died in US military custody.

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But even worse, as of 2017, neither the US nor the Afghan government actually know how many personnel are ready for duty, thanks to the prevalence of «ghost» personnel: phony soldiers used to fence US - paid salaries and equipment.

When a U.S. airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at the Afghan - Pakistan frontier in late 2011, months after the U.S. commando raid that killed bin Laden, Pakistan blocked border crossings into Afghanistan.

In addition to discouraging the Afghans, unawareness of their contribution has made American soldiers more susceptible to suspecting Afghans, thus leading to incidents that endanger or kill people who are probably our allies.

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«In Helmand more than 400 British servicemen, countless hundreds of Afghan servicemen and civilians who are often forgotten when we talk about this, hundreds of Americans, Canadian, French, Estonian soldiers, amongst others, all lost their lives in Helmand, which produces half of Afghanistan's opium.

It is exactly Qatar's balance between respecting traditional Islamic teachings and maintaining an openness towards the outside world that has repeatedly allowed the small Gulf state to act as a mediator between Arab actors and the West, for instance by securing the release of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl from the Afghan Taliban in May 2014.

British soldiers have held Afghan detainees captive without trial or access to legal help for up to 14 months, it has emerged.

Mr Karzai is hoping the Afghan security forces will be able to take over more and more responsibilities from international soldiers in the coming years, as the 2015 withdrawal deadline for British troops approaches.

This summer, Fort Drum soldiers began deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan this time to train and advise Afghan and Iraqi forces.

Over 1,600 soldiers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team will do one of three things in southern Afghanistan: One, protect U.S. forces on bases; two, serve as staff with the Train Advise Assist Command unit; or three advise the Afghan National Army and police.

Over the past 5 years, a novel U.S. Army program has deployed soldier - scientists in 10 Afghan provinces as part of a counterinsurgency strategy to stem reliance on the Taliban.

He was actually one of the soldiers in the Afghan war that used Rhodiola Rosea.

The film is based on a true story, as told in Doug Stanton's book, Horse Soldiers, which describes one of the ways the special forces team adapts to the rugged terrain of Afghanistan — on horseback, like their allied Afghan warriors.

Most of this determined dozen simply form a backdrop to Nelson's heroics, with the exception of grizzled warrant officer Hal Spencer (Michael Shannon), impish sidekick Sam Diller (Michael Pena), and Ben Milo (Trevante Rhodes), a soldier who unexpectedly strikes up a friendship with an Afghan boy.

Private Adam Winfield was a 21 - year - old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted, with the help of his father, to alert the military to his unit's heinous war crimes: killing Afghans for sport.

Formerly known as Horse Soldiers (the movie's subtitle is The Declassified True Story Of The Horse Soldiers), 12 Strong tells the true story of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era Soldiers (the movie's subtitle is The Declassified True Story Of The Horse Soldiers), 12 Strong tells the true story of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era Soldiers), 12 Strong tells the true story of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era tactics.

12 Strong looks to be resurrecting a few of those elements (well, the military fetishism and jingoism, at the very least), telling the «true story» of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era tactics.

Horse Soldiers centers around a band of elite special forces and CIA operatives secretly invade Afghanistan post-9 / 11 on horseback and help Afghan fighters capture the city of Mazar - i - Sharif and topple the Taliban.

Kingstone is looking for contributions from those with particular expertise in Afghanistan and Kabul, the NATO invasion of Afghanistan, Afghan culture and language, soldiers and mercenaries and aid workers and advisers.

These elite force soldiers are humane warriors, going out of their way to remove an Afghan goat shepherd from danger seconds before combat begins.

Maybe Make Some Change is a browser - based text adventure based on the Maywand District killings in Afghanistan, in which a group of U.S. army soldiers allegedly formed a «kill team» last year that murdered unarmed Afghans and arranged the scenes to look like insurgent attacks.

Sleeping Soldiers, on view through May 20, 2012, an exhibition of work by the late photographer and multimedia artist Tim Hetherington, highlighting his work chronicling the Afghan War.

A U.S. soldier watches members of the Afghan Public Protection Force arrive at a ceremony on the outskirts of Kabul on Thursday.

The subject is of paramount importance given the recent Goldstone report and Obama's upcoming meeting with Netanyahu and Abbas, as well disclosures by a Canadian Senator and a deceased soldier that the Afghan mission is a failure.

Finally, CCLA remains concerned that systemic issues which enabled the reported transfer of Afghan detainees by Canadians to the risk of torture has not been addressed — CCLA is concerned that Canada has not only violated its international law obligations, but such actions may put Canadian soldiers at risk in the future.

When soldiers are sent to war with orders to kill, the line between a job well done and murder can become easily obscured by the Afghan sand blowing across the valleys of Helmand Province.

The OMLT soldiers and their Afghan counterparts were still in the field with little knowledge of how many Taliban remained in the area.

Both lawyers are representing child soldiers held at Guantanamo Bay; Frakt as a military lawyer for an illiterate Afghan teen named Mohammed Jawad, and Edney for the only known Canadian citizen at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr.