Sentences with phrase «by afghan»

There, he was thoroughly outdone by Afghan kids who used bamboo sticks for poles and hooked fish after fish.

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.

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.

Hammer Museum Exhibits Hand - Woven Carpets Made by Afghan Weavers and Designed by Six Contemporary L.A. Artists June 8, 2015

This weekend, the Hammer Museum unveiled its latest exhibit, «The Afghan Carpet Project,» a collection of modern, multicolored carpets designed by six Los Angeles — based artists and handmade by Afghan weavers.

Italian Arte Povera artist Alighiero Boetti, for example, famously used embroidery in his series of world maps and text pieces (made by Afghan craftswomen), and New York - based contemporary artist Angelo Filomeno uses the medium in his goth - inspired canvases.

The exhibition Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women closes this week at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, and in a culminating public program tonight (July 26), artists Liza...

Three personal narratives by Afghan refugee children living in Pakistan share one theme: nostalgia for a homeland that is known only through memories and a desire to return in safety one day.

The question informs the engrossing new novel by Afghan - American author Khaled Hosseini, whose surprise international bestseller, The Kite Runner, so enchanted readers 10 years ago.The child in question is Pari, whose long - suffering father arranges her adoption by a well - to - do Afghan...

Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons.

March 23, 2018 • The Trump administration aims to turn up the heat on the Taliban and force those fighters into peace talks proposed by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

He said usually only around 20 Afghans were being held at any one time, but blamed British lawyers for raising question - marks about the way the detainees would be treated by the Afghan authorities.

«We are building on recent military and civilian gains, the result of joint efforts by the Afghan government and the international community, to ensure progress towards a more stable and secure Afghanistan in 2011,» Mr Hague added.

It emerged last night that Nato was suspending joint Nato - Afghan on - the - ground patrols due to the rise in so - called «green on blue» attacks by Afghan forces on western troops.

The third round of the British - sponsored tripartite process earlier this month has also produced a joint pledge by Afghan - Pakistan civilian leadership to secure a peace settlement with the Taliban within the next six months.

We see ample evidence of such violence and domination by those who are «connected» in much of our world — by Afghan warlords as well as the tyrannical chair of the condo board.

One Iranian Christian convert was beaten by an Afghan man who reportedly saw this change as sinful, according The Express.

Public discourse on the fallen is going to be an approximation, but if Hayes was going to wonder whether (for instance) troops who died because their Humvee ran over an IED or because they were shot by an Afghan security officer they were training should not be described as heroes, the calendar offers about 320 or so better days to bring up the subject.

Their power was crushed by the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abdali, in 1175 (A.D. 1761).

And when Canada is asked by its allies and when Canada is asked by the Afghan people get us ready to defend ourselves, I think Canada should respond as we are responding, as the government has responded...

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.

«The number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

A report last year from the U.S. Institute of Peace, quoted in the Post, said that although violent extremist groups in Afghanistan are unpopular, their ideologies have not been effectively countered by the Afghan government and the international community.

«Aside from that, the number of districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government had been one of the last remaining publicly available indicators for members of Congress — many of whose staff do not have access to the classified annexes to SIGAR reports — and for the American public of how the 16 - year - long US effort to secure Afghanistan is faring,» he added.

Kirby declined to comment on the report's details but acknowledged the danger posed by «insider threats» and that the military had drawn lessons from its experience in Afghanistan, where some NATO troops have been attacked and killed by Afghans in uniform.

Even the taking of Kandahar was done mostly by Afghans.

There has been substantial progress, made by the Afghans for the Afghans.

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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).

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.

Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters that the military was investigating whether the two troops may have been killed by ground fire, either by American forces or Afghan commandos taking part in the raid, though it appeared to be accidental.

The crackdown on information comes just months after President Donald Trump announced a new Afghanistan strategy aimed at breaking a battlefield stalemate by accelerating Afghan - led operations against the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the country.

An integral part of the program was to pay militants to transfer their loyalty, and their weapons, to the Afghan government in order to serve as informal peacekeepers in a country dominated by militias.

President Donald Trump has announced a new Afghanistan strategy aimed at breaking a battlefield stalemate by accelerating Afghan - led operations against the Taliban and other insurgent groups in the country.

Government - controlled parts of the country increased from 63 % earlier this year to 68 % in November and, Skovlund writes, the Afghan military's Operation Khalid «resulted in the deaths of over 100 Taliban commanders and 3,000 militants by the end of the summer.»

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.

Named National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year in 2014, Galpin has taken the world by storm founding the nonprofit Mountain2Mountain, the activist organization Combat Apathy and the Afghan cycling program Strength in Numbers.

Over 40,000 Afghan civilians killed by the koranic - driven Taliban

Four years ago, I wrote about the case of Abdul Rahman, an Afghan convert to Christianity who was charged with apostasy (punishable by execution under Islamic law).

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.

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)- Afghan rage over the burning of Qurans by NATO troops continued Thursday even after a President Barack Obama apologized for the «error.»

Thus Afghans would never enlist themselves in the feudal levies commanded by the Iranian Shi`a nobles.

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.

The Sayyids ruled for a time after the Tughluqs, only to be supplanted by the Lodhis, an Afghan tribe which exercised authority until they were ousted by the Mughal invader, Babar, who defeated the last of the Lodhis at the famous battle of Panipat in 933 (A.D. 1526).

and maybe afghans and iraqis would not burn american flags... if americans would not insult them by invading their countries and making war.

Following a terrorist attack by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the already - fragile country suffered another tragedy this morning when six Afghan employees of the International Committee of the...

Yes, for all you Muslim lovers out there, for all you Islamists that would die for your religion, for all you weak lillly livered Muslims that flee your own country to live in ours and swear to its destruction, for all you hipocrites that claim to be in a religion of tolerance and peace but live by your actions of murder and unspeakable horrors, you Iranians, you Afghans, you Pakistanis, you Iragis, you misfits and abhorents of any god, this story of a simple Christian, who is now denied his life because of stupid and educaied cowards in Iran, cowards and murderers who covet children and lust hiding behind a demonic religion, let this man be your true martyr because you are not human and can not touch him.

This continuing neglect of the Afghan contribution by U.S. media and policymakers can only have a demoralizing effect on the alliance between Kabul and Washington, an alliance that Miller cites as a reason for a continued U.S. military presence.

He may underestimate the crucial role played by American air power and special forces that turned the tide of the Northern Alliance's losing war effort in 2001, but he is nonetheless correct that the war is ultimately the Afghans» to win or lose.

This oft - repeated mistake is presumably based on the necessary but incomplete help provided by U.S. air support and a few special forces advisors attached to Afghan anti-Taliban resistance.