UNITED NATIONS: A record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year – more than half after the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct. 7 — and this year may become even deadlier, the United Nations said Monday. The 280 aid workers from 33 countries killed in 20...
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In 2018, optimism about Afghanistan's direction has remained unchanged as like last year, 33 percent of the surveyed Afghans believe that despite the security challenges including Taliban insurgent's militancy and the growing presence of Islamic State (IS) outfit the war-battered country moves in ...
Sar-e Pul Province: Taliban militants ambushed a convoy of Afghan government security forces in an attack officials said killed 22 soldiers and policemen; ... RFE Liberty 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 For frontline civilians, daily life built around war often involves waking up on a remote base and...
There were also 507 women casualties, 130 killed and 377 injured, the report said. In the press release, Tadamichi Yamamoto, the UN secretary-general's special representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, stressed that the report must serve as a call to action by parties to the conflict...
A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically ‘dead’ (e. g. iron resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two ...
other countries or contractors. TheArmy Timespublished astoryyesterday showing just how damaging bad contractors can be to the counterinsurgency strategy: along one route in Kandahar province, over 30 civilians have been killed or wounded by heavily armed security contractors, who ar...
5: FALL 2012 GETTING INTO IT THROUGH THE GUNS: THE THOMSON COLLECTION OF SHIP MODELS AT THE AGO BY DAVID RITTER French prisoners of war held in Britain built some of the ship models in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Cream-white as if carved in ivory but ...
How Lying Causes Casualties of War December 12, 2012 Lying and warfare have long gone hand in hand, a reality that continues today with a U.S. news media that opts for simpleminded storylines about good guys vs. bad guys, the pro-U.S. side against the America-hating side. Such nonsens...
Number of Afghans Forced from Home Soars to Highest Level since the Taliban Era (Posted 2015-07-13 20:51:00) ; the 14-Year-Old War Has Shifted North, Uprooting People Who Once Observed the Conflict from AfarRaghavan, Sudarsan