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    Afghanistan's least populous province, with a population of around 167,000. Parun serves as the provincial capital. Nuristan is bordered on the south by...
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    one of the four "N2KL" provinces (Nangarhar Province, Nuristan Province, Kunar Province and Laghman Province). N2KL was the designation used by the US and...
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  • provinces of Bamyan, Ghazni, Kapisa, Khost, Kunar, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Paktika, Paktiya, Panjshir, Parwan and Wardak. Bagram Airfield is the...
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    "Po-to-chang-na". Badakhshan is bordered by Takhar Province to the west, Panjshir Province to the south west, Nuristan Province to the south, Tajikistan to the north...
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  • February 19, following a heavy snow, an avalanche in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province killed 25 people. 2024 Southeast Asia heat wave For the first time...
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    Kafiristan (category History of Nuristan Province)
     'Land of Infidels'), is a historical region that covered present-day Nuristan Province in Afghanistan and its surroundings. This historic region lies on...
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    The Nuristanis are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages...
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    2013. "UNHCR Sub-Office JALALABAD DISTRICT PROFILE November 2002 Province: Nuristan, District: Bargi Matal" (PDF). aims.org. Archived from the original...
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    Battle of Kamdesh (category History of Nuristan Province)
    American Combat Outpost ("COP") Keating near the town of Kamdesh in Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan. The attack was the bloodiest battle for US...
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    smallest, lying on the southern edge of the Hindu Kush mountains, in Nuristan Province about 60 km north of Jalalabad. This subregion is bounded on the north...
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    coalition led by the United States on 7 November 2003 in the Nuristan province and Kunar province in Afghanistan. It involved an airdrop into the Hindu Kush...
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    outpost was under attack. Ty Carter Army Specialist Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province October 3, 2009 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat...
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    Kalasha Valleys, in the Waygal and middle Pech Valleys of Afghanistan's Nuristan Province. The name "Kalasha" seems to have been adopted for the Kalash people...
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    unit was assigned to Combat Outpost Keating in the Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province in Eastern Afghanistan. It replaced the outgoing Blackfoot Troop,...
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  • Idlib, a village in Syria Kafiristan, the historic name for the Nuristan Province in Afghanistan Kaffrine, a city in Senegal Kaffir lime, a variety...
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    Battle of Wanat (category History of Nuristan Province)
    stationed near Quam, in the Waygal district of Afghanistan's far eastern Nuristan province. The distant position was primarily defended by United States Army...
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  • Alingar River in Afghanistan's Nuristan Province. Other major places where the language of Ashkun is spoken are Nuristan Province, Pech Valley in Wama District...
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    was stationed at Combat Outpost (COP) Keating in Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province. On October 3, 2009, the outpost came under heavy attack and Carter...
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  • This is a list of the governors of the province of Nuristan, Afghanistan. List of current governors of Afghanistan "AFP: Afghan provincial governor dies...
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    drafted in 1981, with Nuristan National Park to be formed in what was then Laghman Province and Kunar Province (Nuristan Province was not created, by carving...
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    forward observer team tasked with gathering intelligence in Gowardesh, Nuristan Province, in northeastern Afghanistan. The team established a small base on...
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    Kamdesh (redirect from Kamdesh, Nuristan)
    the Landai Sin Valley, and the center of the Kamdesh District in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. It is located at the general area of Yurmir (يورمير)...
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    Pashayi people (category Ethnic groups in Nangarhar Province)
    northeast of the Kambojas, possibly being the ancestors of those in Nuristan Province. The name now takes form in Alishang and Alingar District, meaning...
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  • during four collisions in Laghman Province, near the end of the same highway. February 19 – A landslide in Nuristan Province buries the village of Nakre in...
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    Kafir harp (category Nuristan Province)
    or five-stringed arched harp used by the Nuristanis native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Lower Chitral District of northwestern...
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    direct origins, claims that the pakol has a very recent history in Nuristan Province, where it is widely worn nowadays, going back no older than the late...
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  • Reserve, Herat Province Nuristan National Park and Wildlife Reserve, Nuristan Province Pamir-i-Buzurg Wildlife Reserve, Badakhshan Province Registan Desert...
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    Parun (category Populated places in Nuristan Province)
    Prasûn and Prasungul, is a small town and administrative center of Nuristan Province and its Parun District in Afghanistan. The city of Parun has a population...
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    Muhammad in Kunar province while Sheikh Dost Muhammad, a local Afghan Taliban leader, hosted Maulana Fazlullah in Nuristan province. Faqir Muhammad, who...
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    Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani (category People from Nuristan Province)
    Nuristani was born in 1947 in Neshagram, which is in the Want District of Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan. His father's name is Ahmad Khan. From 1992...
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