Topic: Afghan Northern Alliance

enduringfreedom

I began boot camp at Paris Island on May 22, 2000. One rumor wasthat our deployment was not going to happen, and another rumorindicated we might be going straight to Afghanistan. We also stopped in Egypt where we conducted sometraining on the ...

ABC-TV's Mini-series on 9-11

The furor over ABC-TV's apparently slanted and innacurate " ABC-TV's timing of the release is an obvious and crude attempt to use its public franchise to influence the November elections. By this foul act, ABC-TV/Disney has lowered itself even farther ...

Afghanistan Year In Review 2001

26,813,000 (including Afghan refugees estimated to number about 2,000,000 in Pakistan and about 2,000,000 in Iran) Capital: Crippling drought and unending internal fighting characterized the first half of 2001 in Afghanistan, but the terrorist attacks of ...
Turnout brisk in Afghan north but optimism tempered by future threatsEven in one of Afghanistan's safest, most progressive regions, the men and women who lined up to vote in Thursday's presidential election kept a check on their optimism.There was ...

Northern Alliance

Aspects of the topic Northern Alliance are discussed in the following places at Britannica. 9 of that year, al-Qaeda hit men carried out the assassination of famed mujahideen leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, who at the time was leading the Northern Alliance (a ...
Former Afghan foreign minister indicates he will challenge Karzai for presidentAfghanistan's former foreign minister and a key member of the opposition to President Hamid Karzai indicated Friday that he will run in the country's August presidential election.Dr. Abdullah said ...

Extreme Medicine

In late OCTOBER three Katyusha rockets, launched by the Taliban in retaliation for U.S. air strikes, hit the market of the small city of Charikar in territory controlled by the opposition Northern Alliance. There, 60 kilometers from Kabul, is the only ...