Sentences with phrase «on afghan»

18 - 20 October 2017, Vranje, Serbia: In partnership with Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, UNODC initiated piloting of «Strong Families» programme for the prevention of drugs, crime and violence on Afghan refugee families currently stranded in refuge reception centers in Republic of Serbia.

On Saturday the Federal government released the terms of reference for the Iacobucci inquiry on Afghan detainees.

After nearly 40 hours on the afghan, I'm not even half way to its completion.

Trying a toy with a furry tail might just turn on an Afghan.

GROOMING THE AFGHAN HOUND Without a question, the way to achieve the best results for a beautiful coat on your Afghan Hound is to have your dog, healthy, happy, clean and well conditioned.

Neither side won, and neither side cared how many Afghans they killed or how much suffering they inflicted on Afghan people.

A burned - out war correspondent hoping for a last hurrah in Afghanistan arrives on the Afghan border just as American bombs begin falling on the ruling Taliban in this fast - paced, timely, and galvanizing novel.

It is based on the true story of a Pashtun woman who was the first to sing on Afghan Star.

Stranded in Afghanistan, he happens upon a girl with an amazing voice and endeavors to get her on Afghan Idol.

Whereas flat Punjab is home to long, winding river systems capable of absorbing enormous quantities of water, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas on the Afghan border generate relatively shorter and narrow rivers cascading from the mountains that cover roughly half the region.

The extraordinary development came after Philip Hammond was dragged back to the Commons for the second time in two days to answer an urgent question on Afghan strategy.

The Pakistani president called on coalition forces in Afghanistan to do more to improve monitoring and policing on the Afghan - Pakistani border.

Tasini, a labor activist who dropped a challenge to US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to set his sights on ousting Rangel, has been running on the congressman's left, challenging him particularly hard of late on the Afghan War.

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.

The Iowa Republican's missive isn't the first time he has weighed in on the Afghan boondoggle.

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

Not exact matches

ISIS - K turned their sights on Tora Bora after the US hit their previous hideout with the MOAB, Hazrat Ali, a member of the Afghan Parliament, told the Times.

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.

The September SIGAR report indicated that Afghan security forces had effectively closed ranks after the DoD «advocated for the closure of multiple checkpoints and consolidation of forces on fewer bases.»

«The Afghans know what's going on; the Taliban knows what's going on; the US military knows what's going on,» Sopko told the New York Times on Oct. 30.

Since that shift, there's been a significant spike in both civilian casualties and insider attacks; on Oct. 19, the increasingly - emboldened Taliban virtually wiped out a 60 - man Afghan National Army unit like it was nothing.

After 16 years and $ 120 billion spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the US invasion, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are alarmingly unprepared to take on the resurgent Taliban that's slowly clawed back territory since NATO combat operations ended there in 2014.

Italy's government, divided over the Afghan war and ties with the U.S. military, lost a crucial vote on foreign policy on Wednesday that plunged Prime Minister Romano Prodi into his worst crisis since taking office in May.

Bruic spends her days now working at the Afghan army's two - year - old signals school, where she advises Afghan officers on communications networks and training.

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.

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.

Trump on Monday railed against the recent string of attacks in Afghanistan, and ruled out any US discussions with the Taliban as part of the effort to seek peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

Under his leadership, a special unit — activated to find bin Laden during the Clinton administration — successfully amassed «extensive human networks» of Afghan sources reporting on the whereabouts of the al Qaeda leader.

Other previously available information on the size, attrition and performance of the Afghan forces continue to be unavailable.

The cozier diplomatic ties have so far focused on Afghanistan, where Russia has cultivated ties to the Afghan Taliban militants who are fighting US troops and have historic links to Islamabad.

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.

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.

The PBO has provided credible estimates on the costs of the F - 35 fighter, the costs of the Afghan War as well as credible analysis on the fiscal affects of an aging population.

Afghan journalists were shaken but defiant Tuesday, vowing to continue reporting on the bloody conflict after the deadliest attack on the country's media since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

If we have no real plan for Afghanistan and are sailing on a wing and a prayer, we are left to hope that the Afghans will suddenly, wearily, come to their senses, stop fighting, and build a semi-functional state.

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).

«On this occasion, the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's foreign minister said Sunday that his country will deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its own timeline despite increasing U.S. pressure to move swiftly to help turn around the war in Afghanistan.

It concentrates on a period of roughly 15 years, beginning with al - Qaeda's founding during the Soviet - Afghan War and concluding with its rationale and planning for the attacks of 2001.

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.

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.

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...

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.

The Obama / McChrystal plan is classic counterinsurgency and focuses on protecting the Afghan population while strengthening Afghan security forces and government.

When she had a segment on what the Afghan war has done for women she was SO excited they could now wear high heels.

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

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.

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.