Sentences with phrase «from afghan»

In WarCraft, she creates a large - scale video installation using symbols borrowed from Afghan war rugs.

Prisoners from the Afghan war first arrived at «Gitmo,» as locals call the base, in January 2002.

From the Afghan Hound to the Turkish Angora, the Meet the Breeds event will showcase 160 AKC registered dog breeds and 41 CFA registered cat breeds in booths individually decorated to depict each breed's country of origin, historical purpose / function, and attributes as a family pet.

The rescue of a kidnap victim, an Indonesian teenage boy, from an Afghan village, yields a bonus in the form of MacD Lawless, a former U.S. Army Ranger, who proves of immediate value.

Discover men and women of all ages from the Afghan Muslim community looking to connect.

I bought my handmade silk carpet in Afghanistan from an Afghan vendor.

Then the incessant rain began to swamp this city in northwestern Pakistan, about 50 miles from the Afghan border.

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.

Sometimes PRTs even perpetuated confusion on what «basic services» actually were from an Afghan perspective.

We got this idea from an Iraqi lady's YouTube channel, and she said she heard it from an Afghan lady.

Randomly choosing another topic of peruse I see that in Afghanistan & Pakistan a key proposal is to «Ensure Buy - In from Afghan and Pakistani Governments».

There is no help from the Afghan government.

Eight of the journalists were from Afghan outlets: two reporters from the Mashal TV, a cameraman and a reporter working for 1TV, three reporters from Radio Azadi and one from Tolo News, the AFJSC said.

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One of the things that I am getting from the Afghans is a new understanding of what happiness is, and what it means, to be truly alive, to be truly present in the moment.

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

The brothers» entrepreneurial streak came from their parents, Afghan refugees who arrived in the U.S. in 1983 with virtually nothing and promptly started a visa and passport procurement company.

No amount of bureaucratic gymnastics will hide the problem permeating Afghan security forces and the contours of the flailing campaign against the Taliban from the American people.

Here's what we do know about the state of Afghan security forces: A September report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction indicated that ANDSF is nowhere near its 352,000 target personnel level: Afghan National Army force strength, in particular, fell from 185,817 in September 2013 to 168,327 in November 2016, thanks to increasing attrition rates and fluctuating readiness.

The operation, near the border with Pakistan, started at about 10:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday and within minutes the 50 US Army Rangers along with 40 Afghan commandos came under fire from multiple direction.

He meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House this week and is expected to press for immunity from prosecution as a condition for allowing even a relatively small contingent of U.S. troops to stay behind in Afghanistan after the 2014 drawdown.

«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.

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.

Vice and Moby share a common shareholder in 21st Century Fox (fox) and the Afghan company holds a license from the U.S. Treasury's OFAC allowing it to expand into Iran — a market Vice wants to tap.

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.

Rangers from 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, as part of a combined Afghan and coalition security force operating in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, await a CH - 47 for extraction.

The unit took small - arms fire from a nearby mountain top during a routine patrol, and was able to suppress the enemy with the assistance of local Afghan National Security Forces.

Marzak has historically been a stronghold for the insurgency over the past decade until the Afghan and U.S forces took advantage of the winter months to establish a local police force at the request of the elders and secure the village from foreign fighters who transit the area during the fighting season.

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.»

«In view of the lack of progress hitherto in bringing the perpetrators to justice, and recent developments which may complicate the investigation, there is a growing sense that Canada should contribute a more active police role to track the Afghan investigation and determine next steps,» said an email from the Canadian embassy to Foreign Affairs headquarters, dated March 28, 2007.

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.

They got mad that we were giving away radios with a picture of the Afghan flag on the boxes (the flag has verses from the Koran and they said we were encouraging people to throw the Koran on the ground as garbage).

Afghan forces were trying to arrest leaders of the Taliban and that devolved into needing help from the United States in the form of airstrikes.

A spokesman for the Afghan embassy in London said Karzai had been due in London late Tuesday from Germany but was flying back to Afghanistan after the twin suicide attacks killed 60 people and wounded scores of others in the two cities.

The Mughal power structure rested on a heterogeneous Muslim aristocracy composed of newcomers from Transoxiana (where Bukhara and Samarkand had long been centers of Arabic Islamic culture), of Iranian noblemen seeking careers in the newly conquered country, and of the Turkish and Afghan aristocracy who were already entrenched in India but now removed from supreme power.

I don't know what fraction of the fallen dead they would regard as «heroes», but whatever it is, it hasn't stopped many of them from opposing the Iraq War or the Afghan Surge.

In the initial stages, it was the US, which used Afghans, Pakistanis and Muslims from other countries for making the Soviet army bleed without losing American lives.

-- Afghanistan as of 10/23/2013, 2,151 US troops killed, 1,782 from hostile fire, 369 from non-hostile activities, Over 40,000 Afghan civilians killed due to the dark - age, koranic - driven Taliban acts of horror

Meanwhile the USA countered the Taliban propaganda with its own campaign through the use of Middle Eastern media, besides dropping pamphlets from the air in Afghanistan and creating Radio Free Afghanistan, broadcasting American news and entertainment to Afghans in their local languages.

Persian history from the tenth century of the Hijrah onward, in spite of transient imperial episodes on the Afghan and Central Asian borders, became more and more the history of a national state, thus anticipating a development which has become the dominant feature of present - day Islam.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

I have been raised with nothing but encouragement from my family, including the men, to excel in whatever I want to do in life, which I am sure most Americans would find surprising considering that I am a 1st generation Afghan women who was raised in a conservative Muslim household.

Often British Empires respond for being humiliated, to impose on Afghans some policy that is far from our reach to defend.

From sewn tote bags and crochet flag afghans to kids firecracker crafts and party decorations, you'll find it all.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a long - term partnership that will increase Australia's aid spending in Afghanistan from $ 165 million to $ 250 million p...

Okay, I can get out from under the afghan as long as it's for a good cause and it involves turning on the oven.

Chatting during the boat cruise (from left), Brandon Barnholt of KeHE, a leading distributor of natural & organic, specialty and fresh products; Kim Jung, a co-founder of Rumi Spice, which produces saffron products and provides Afghan farmers with an alternative to growing opium poppies; Bill Weiland, CEO of Presence Marketing, who since the early 1990s has been a pioneering marketer and investor in the Good Food sector (that is a Chicago Cubs hat he is wearing); and Chef Paul Virant.

Rumi Spice Afghan Curry Braise cooking sauce, with sustainably farmed saffron from Afghanistan

But the thing was, they reminded me of my favorite cookies from my childhood — something called Afghan biscuits.