• Soviet–Afghan War in the 1980s and the subsequent Afghan civil war, the town of Khost was besieged for more than eleven years. Its airstrip's 3 km runway served...
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    Khōst (Pashto: خوست) is the capital of Khost Province in Afghanistan. It is the largest city in the southeastern part of the country, and also the largest...
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    Khost (Pashto/Dari: خوست) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan located in the southeastern part of the country. Khost consists of thirteen districts...
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  • year. According to the reports, he died in Afghanistan and was buried in Khost Province of Afghanistan. These reports were denied by the Taliban and some...
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  • conflict Siege of Saigon (1975) – Vietnam War Siege of Tel al-Zaatar (1976) – Lebanese Civil War Grand Mosque seizure (1979) Siege of Khost (1980–91)...
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    the Afghan National Police. The 2nd Battalion was deployed primarily in Khost Province, with elements serving in eastern Paktika and Kandahar Provinces...
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    Daykundi Farah Faryab Ghazni Ghor Helmand Herat Jowzjan Kabul Kandahar Kap. Khost Kunar Kunduz Lagh. Logar Nangarhar Nimruz Nuristan Paktia Paktika Panj....
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    (1): 55. ISSN 0030-980X. JSTOR 41392239. 1933: Siege of Matun, the capital of the Afghan province of Khost, by the Mohmands. 1937: Uprising of the Mohmands...
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  • "Afganistán entierra al ministro fallecido en atentado bajo estrictas medidas de seguridad". "Khalil Haqqani: Taliban minister killed in bombing in Kabul"...
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  • injured. Wednesday, February 11 – In Khost, Major Mohammed Isa Khan, the deputy intelligence director of Khost Province, was assassinated in his car...
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  • bombing 2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack 2015 Kabul Parliament attack 2015 Khost suicide bombing 7 August 2015 Kabul attacks 10 August 2015 Kabul suicide...
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    1991, the 666th Commando Battalion was completely decimated during the Siege of Khost by the Mujahideen. Information on the fate of other commando battalions...
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    cruise missiles launched by the US military devastated an al-Qaeda base in Khost, Afghanistan. The network's capacity was unharmed. In late 1999 and 2000...
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    Province's Khost wa Fereng District. Both sides suffered several losses. A local informed The Independent that the NRF still held settlements in Khost wa Fereng...
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    which he refused to do. In 2005 when Merjuddin Pathan was governor of the Khost Province, Haqqani approached him and wanting a dialogue with the Hamid Karzai...
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    Afghanistan". In July 2007, Al-Zawahiri supplied direction for the Lal Masjid siege, codename Operation Silence. This was the first confirmed time that Al-Zawahiri...
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    2021 Taliban offensive (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    major city under Afghan government control. Soon afterward, Maidan Shar, Khost, Bamyan, Mahmud-i-Raqi, Charikar and Parun also fell. Afghan commandos managed...
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    Afghanistan (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Daykundi Farah Faryab Ghazni Ghor Helmand Herat Jowzjan Kabul Kandahar Kapisa Khost Kunar Kunduz Laghman Logar Nangarhar Nimruz Nuristan Oruzgan Paktia Paktika...
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    Afghan aircraft, against a rebel-held area in Khost; on October 14, they bombed rebel bases in the Khost and Nadral regions. On 15 September 1927, the...
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    reduced to controlling only a third of Liberia and under pressure from the Siege of Monrovia, resigned in August 2003 and fled to Nigeria. The Accra Comprehensive...
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    the city by plane and fly to Khost, still within the country. However, once they were in the air, it was clear that "Khost had fallen and so had Jalalabad...
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    Khost, which was caused by a grenade, as per TB sources". liveuamap.com. 6 October 2021. "Afghanistan: Death toll from explosion at school in Khost reaches...
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    Shamil Basayev (category Beslan school siege)
    NCOs in guerrilla warfare and Islamic learning in the Amir Munawid Camp in Khost province in Afghanistan", with Basayev also having further specialized training...
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    Islami and Jamiat, and would be involved in Operation Arrow and the siege of Khost. Following lengthy negotiations, the Geneva Accords was signed in 1988...
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    military draft, which had earlier led to the unsuccessful Alizai rebellion and Khost rebellion. Kalakani denounced his opponents as kuffar, while his forces...
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    November 2001, 15,000 Taliban soldiers were due to surrender after the Siege of Kunduz to American and Northern Alliance forces. Instead, 400 Al-Qaeda...
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    included Khost and Paktika provinces, all on the border with Pakistan; brigade headquarters was at Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost. Known as...
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    List of last stands (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    p. 11. ISBN 978-0-85045-271-6. Mclaughlin, William (2016-05-04). "The Siege of Numantia: Scipio Shows Young Marius How to Run a Legion – Page 2 of 2"...
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    Regiment: Captain Nate Self, wounded by RPG fragments. Staff Sergeant Ray DePouli, wounded by RPG fragments. Private First Class David Gilliam, wounded...
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  • Democráticos (liberal party)  United States (naval support) Filibusters 1856 1857 Khost rebellion (1856–1857) Emirate of Afghanistan Khostwal and Waziri tribesmen...
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