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unusual facts about War in Afghanistan



Caimanera

Residents of this remote town are the closest Cuban neighbours to the US military camp and currently prison for combatants from a war in Afghanistan.

Christopher Ingham

Ingham was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2002 in a special Honours list for individuals involved in the early stages of the War in Afghanistan.

Grand Courage

War theme is mostly noticed in songs like "Te, kogo ryadom net" ("Те, кого рядом нет", Those Who Are Not Around) (which is dedicated to those who died in the war in Afghanistan) and "Na voyne" ("На войне", At War) (in memory of the veterans of World War II).

Hostis humani generis

Unlawful enemy combatants, or persons captured in war who do not fight on behalf of a recognized sovereign state, have become an increasingly common phenomenon in contemporary wars, such as War in Afghanistan, Iraq War, and First Chechen War.

Ismail Isakov

Isakov met with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2005, announcing the U.S. could continue to use the Manas Air Base in support of the war in Afghanistan.

Mark Urban

In his years on Newsnight, he has reported on many of the most compelling foreign news stories in the past two decades: the Gulf War; the attempted coup d'état of 1991 in Moscow; 1993 events in Moscow; Bosnian War; Middle East peace process; the War in Kosovo; and the recent US military campaigns in War in Afghanistan and War in Iraq.

Sean Naylor

Naylor spent almost four months covering the War in Afghanistan, including several days in the Shah-i-Kot Valley at the start of Operation Anaconda.

The Tillman Story

The film is about the 2004 death of U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman in the war in Afghanistan, the cover-up of the true circumstances of his death, and his family's struggle to unearth the truth.


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Ai-Khanoum

As with other archaeological sites such as Begram or Hadda, the Ai-Khanoum site has been pillaged during the long phase of war in Afghanistan since the fall of the Communist government.

Danfung Dennis

He photographed and directed his first feature length documentary on the war in Afghanistan, Hell and Back Again.

Donna Foote

While based in London she reported on the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, tensions in the Middle East, the troubles in Northern Ireland, Diana, Princess of Wales and the British Royal Family, and UK politics and culture.

Justin Merriman

Merriman has photographed and covered many national and international stories, including the events of September 11 and the crash of United Flight 93, the Sago mine disaster in Sago, West Virginia, polio in India, life in Cuba, the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Pakistan, the war in Afghanistan and stories across the country.

Kimberly Dozier

Her assignments included the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkans, Vladimir Putin's election, the death of Princess Diana, the Northern Ireland peace process, and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran.

Mark Graham

Mark Anthony Graham (1973–2006), Canadian Olympic athlete and casualty in the War in Afghanistan

Mike Shuster

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for coverage of the Iraq War (2007 and 2004); September 11th and the war in Afghanistan (2003); and the Gulf War (1992)

OEF

Operation Enduring Freedom, official U.S. government name for the War in Afghanistan

Panther's Claw

Operation Panther's Claw, an ongoing United Kingdom-led military operation of the War in Afghanistan in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan