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Matt Cavanagh
matt_cav_
This report rings true, and for me, has depressing echoes of the debate around the British military campaign in Helmand (which I worked on, in the Treasury, the Ministry of
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Indian History
IndianHistory0
THREAD to Bust Myths related to Sarasvati RiverMany modern indian historians, leftists have claimed the Sarasvati river 1) never existed or 2) if it did, it is the Helmand river
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Dr. Dawood Azami 🌱داود اعظمي
DawoodAzami
#Taliban posted a rare interview with a #Shia-#Hazara Taliban official, Mawlawi Mehdi, "governor" of Balkhab district in northern Sari-Pul province (calling him a Shia from the Hazara Brothers.)He is the
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Natalia Antonova 🦉🕯
NataliaAntonova
Ready for an #OSINT challenge? Well,In 2012, @redcoathistory was embedded with the Royal Marine Commandos in Helmand, Afghanistan. This is where this picture, with an honestly quite haunting and beautiful
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Dr. Drexluddin Khan Spiveyzai
RisboLensky
Manba ul Jihad released the video Real Man 4 in several languages including English . It has several interesting parts. The first is message that #Taliban won't accept #USA made
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Col Naweed Kawusi
nkawusi
THREAD:1) The on-going war in today’s Afghanistan is not only fought across battlefields of Helmand, Kandahar, Mazar or Herat. There is another war going on and this is the war
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Darsh
ReSt_AsSuReD2
The British military expedition in Helmand province after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan is really a mesmerizing read. After enormous sacrifice of blood & treasure, all the important towns like
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U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad
US4AfghanPeace
1/9 Unfounded charges of violations and inflammatory rhetoric do not advance peace. Instead, we should pursue strict adherence to all articles of the U.S.-Taliban Agreement and U.S.-Afghanistan Joint Declaration and
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Andrew Watkins
and_huh_what
1/ On civilians in Taliban rhetoric:For well over a decade, Taliban rhetoric counted civilian govt employees, journalists, health & aid sector, even relatives & bystanders as enemies (recall claimed attacks
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Jack McCain
McCainJack
I know that I will remember the faces of Lt K. and Lt N. for the rest of my life. And that I will never forget watching their two coffins
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Kael Weston
KaelWeston
1/10 I’ve been asked about my view on this NYT report. After spending 7 years in 2 wars, it hits home. I had military friends die and be wounded in
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Dr Mike Martin ⛵️
ThreshedThought
I’ve been feeling for a while that I should mention some stuff about Afghanistan. A thread: So we have this deal; which is nothing more than a smokescreen for the
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Fidato
tequieremos
“Some astonishing facts about Afghan National Forces”By October 2012, the Afghan Security Forces had a strength of 352,000. The Afghans claimed that it would cost $6 billion a year to
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Ibraheem Thurial B.
Afghan_Policy
Some quick thoughts on @UNAMAnews' latest report on civilian casualties. Firstly, let's go through some of the facts. During the first quarter of 2020, over 533 civilians were killed and
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History of Central Asia and Khorâsan
BiruniKhorasan
Short thread about Afghanistan´s different types of turbans, locally known as "lungee" or "mandeel". Check it out! Pashtun militiamen from Helmand province. Picture shows two Mujahedeens: right one wearing
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Syed
gypsy_heart6
1. In modern Persian, zamin-dar means 'the one who holds land' but it might be related to Middle Persian Zamin-i dātbar (Land of the Justice-giver). Zamin-i dātbar/Zamindawar was capital of
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