Sentences with phrase «local afghan»

Last year, Barry Levinson's misfire Rock the Kasbah featured Bill Murray as a manipulative music manager fostering a local Afghan woman's singing talent, a production which at least had the sense to cast a non-American in its weightiest supporting role.

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.

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 tactics.

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.

But like other foreign - owned private security companies (PSCs), during the past few years it has been forced to hand off much of its work to local Afghan subcontractors.

While deployed in Afghanistan, in 2011, Andrew Williams and a fellow serviceman, Pete Foster, created a prototype of a product idea using parts of their gear and the assistance of a local Afghan sewing master.

Not exact matches

ISIS first came to South Asia in 2014, using the group's substantial funds and weak local governments to co-opt high - ranking members of the Pakistani Taliban and disaffected members of the Afghan Taliban.

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.

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.

Zari makes her debut today on the «Baghch - e-Simsim,» an Afghan local co-production of the long - running U.S. show.

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.

I did my own shopping in order to see what was being grown in the country and to meet and talk with the local people, and often wore Afghan clothes.

Though we rarely cooked Afghan meals ourselves, we enjoyed many great meals dinners and breakfasts with our Afghan friends, and fell in love with local favorites such as shula, manto, asheq and of course Kabuli pilau.

For its part, the US has in the past year or so further empowered its traditional allies among Afghan regional warlords (most of whom have heinous track - records) to establish their own local police forces — an issue over which Human Rights Watch's recently - released annual report expresses «grave concern».

Local people abhorred Afghan infighting, which was why the Taliban did not face much resistance in extending their writ beyond Kandahar and disarming the conquered areas.

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

SMS, flirt or chat with Afghan women and Afghan girls looking like you for local dating.

Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.

He begins to work on the local police blotter in an Afghan - style coverage of local crime and gets drawn into the town's subculture.

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

Through the eyes of Afghan local filmmakers and cameramen, the screening invites viewer to reflect on the visual representation of the city of Kabul in films and videos.

Was here on local TV; an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, complaining to the reporters that:» he doesn't have enough food for his 3 wifes and 14 children»... You go and tell those ladies, to have a say about the number of children.

ICU charge nurse in the most advanced trauma hospital in the country that provided care for all U.S and coalition service members, local Afghani civilians, D.O.D., Afghan National Army and Enemies of the Peace