On Target? for the Soldiers Who Fought in Afghanistan, There Is No Shame in Admitting We Lost the WarTaylor, Scott
At a peace rally in central London on Saturday, tens of thousands gathered to protest against the presence of allied troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Speaking from the family home in Battersea, Tom's father, Colin, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers who fought in the first Gul...
MullahIbrahim Sadrthe head of the interior ministry is a seasoned war veteran. In the 1980s he was part of the mujahideen forces fighting against the Soviet occupation. Later he joined the Taliban and fought against other opposition forces during the country’s civil war (1989-1996). An extre...
The deputy police chief of the province, Rahimullah Khan, said the boy, Wasil Ahmad, was killed in Tirin Kot, the capital of the southern Uruzgan province. The boy had fought Taliban alongside his uncle on many occasions, Khan said. Photographs on social media showed ten-year-old Ahmad hol...
You realize they did extensive testing of the bomb and estimates of loss of life based on the current fighting in the Pacific didn’t you? A loss of another 1,000,000 ALLIED lives gone if the war was fought in the conventional way. It’s funny...
In 1990, the alliance formed the Unity Party. Mazari was killed in 1994, possibly by a Pashtun mujahideen group with whom they frequently fought. Died: 1994 Meena Women's rights activistBorn: 1957Birthplace: Kabul, Afghanistan Amid the social tumult of the 1970s, Meena (who is known only ...
The group was formed by "mujahideen" fighters who fought Soviet forces in the 1980s with the backing of the CIA. What is the group's history in Afghanistan? Emerging in 1994 as one of several factions fighting a civil war, the Taliban gained control of much of the ...
Who organized the Rough Riders? Rough Riders: The Rough Riders was the nickname of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. This group of volunteers fought in the Spanish-American War, where they were instrumental in winning the Battle of Las Guasimas, Battle of San Juan Hill, and the Siege...
The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost The war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War", a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, elusive and ultimately unbeatable Afghan guerilla force (the mujahideen). The hit-and-run...
Chief of Sea Battle to Lead NATO; an Admiral Who Fought Drug Cartels Faces the War in Afghanistan 来自 questia.com 喜欢 0 阅读量: 8 作者: TJ Gibbons 摘要: Byline: TIMOTHY J. GIBBONS Navy Adm. James Stavridis said two years of battling drug cartels......