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Winter Soldier

Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan, an inquiry into American war crimes during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, held in 2008


1979 U.S. embassy burning in Islamabad

A detailed narrative of this event is provided in the book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll.

Afghanistan Times Daily

The paper identified a need for funds to hire new chief editors, sub-editors and journalists in the Afghan provinces of Herat, Kandahar, Ghazni, Bamian, Parwan, Kunduz, Jalalabad and Khost.

Asadabad, Afghanistan

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings, which took place in the mountainous terrain near Asadabad from June to July 2005.

Badghis Province

Agriculture is the main source of people's income and the existence of Murghab and Hari rivers makes the available land suitable for cultivation.

College of Islamic and Arabic Studies

College of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Afghanistan, American intelligence analysts characterize this as a jihadist safe house

Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan

Major General Robert W. Cone handed over command to Formica on January 15, 2009.

Corrie Erickson

The United States Air Force 104th fighter squadron has used Erickson's Pin-up art for its Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II Fighter Jets, stationed in Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

Euthydemus I

Little is known of his reign until 208 BC when he was attacked by Antiochus III the Great, whom he tried in vain to resist on the shores of the river Arius (Battle of the Arius), the modern Herirud.

Gary Schroen

Schroen's experiences in Afghanistan prior to September 11 were chronicled in Steve Coll's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.

Ishkashim, Afghanistan

Poplar and chinar trees goew as well, but there is little firewood.

Kholm, Afghanistan

The town is slightly to the south of the ruins of the ancient town of Aornos, destroyed in the mid-16th century.

Lejay, Afghanistan

Haji Pir Mohammad, the deputy governor of Helmand, led a six-man investigative team to the region, to investigate villager's reports of a massive American aerial bombardment.

Colonel Roger King, a US military spokesman, told reporters that the US Special Forces hunting the ambushers believed they were hunting between thirty and one hundred fighters.

Maidan Wardak Province

Maidan Wardak province is located in the Central (or Central East) region of Afghanistan; bordering Parwan to the Northeast, Kabul and Logar to the east, Ghazni to the south and Bamyan to the west.

Marja

Marja, Afghanistan, an unincorporated agricultural district in Nad Ali District, Helmand Province

Maryland Air National Guard

From January to June 2003, the 104th Fighter Squadron was deployed to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, where it flew strikes against Taliban and al Qaeda forces and earned the distinction of being the longest-deployed Air National Guard fighter squadron at Bagram.

Merv

Through or near this gap flow northwards in parallel courses the Tejen and Murgab rivers, until they lose themselves in the Karakum Desert.

Navy Ten Nautical Miler

In April 2010, race coordinators were contacted by Navy personnel serving in Farah, Afghanistan interested in running a satellite version of the race there.

Panam

Panam, Afghanistan, a village in Badakhshan Province in north-eastern Afghanistan

Qala i Naw

Qala i Naw, Afghanistan, provincial capital of Badghis Province in northwest Afghanistan

Ricky G. Adams

A combat veteran of the Afghanistan War, during a 2006 tour of duty in Afghanistan, Adams served as Director of the Police Reform Directorate for the Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan.

Sayyed Ahmad Khan Barha

After the Ahmadabad victory, the king sent him in pursuit of the sons of Sher K. Fuladi who had gone to Idar.

Shamim Jawad

Jawad was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and studied at Kabul University and Golden Gate University in San Francisco, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Human Relations.

Tashkurgan

Kholm, Afghanistan, formerly called Tashkurgan, a town in northern Afghanistan

Volney F. Warner

On August 18, 2005, Warner's granddaughter, First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, was killed in action in Delak, Afghanistan, making her the first female West Point graduate to die in combat.

Winter Soldier

Winter Soldier Investigation, an inquiry into American war crimes during the Vietnam War, held in 1971

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, an upcoming 2014 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics characters


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