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News Afghanistan Nuristan: Afghanistan- Afghan civilian casualties double in deadliest July

Published on: Sunday 04 August 2019
Afghanistan- Afghan civilian casualties double in deadliest July
News source: https://menafn.com/1098842937/Afghanistan-Afghan-civilian-casualties-double-in-deadliest-July

No report about casualties was received from Bamyan and Nuristan provinces in July ... Past experiences show casualties and attacks surge in Afghanistan in summer and decline in winter. ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: ISIS recruitment is growing in Afghanistan, even as the US and Taliban work for peace

Published on: Wednesday 07 August 2019
ISIS recruitment is growing in Afghanistan, even as the US and Taliban work for peace
News source: https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/isis-recruitment-is-growing-in-afghanistan-even-as-the-us-and-taliban-work-for-peace-1.895798

“Many of them are foreigners and enter Afghanistan through all borders, even through Kabul’s international airport.” The threat is not far-fetched, especially in the country’s eastern provinces of ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: Pakistani terrorists being trained in Afghanistan after Balakot

Published on: Saturday 06 July 2019
Pakistani terrorists being trained in Afghanistan after Balakot
News source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pak-terrorists-being-trained-in-afghanistan-after-balakot/story-LScNbk5jsCcZXxEM2HmljM.html

Indian Air Force (IAF) Mirage jets attacked JeM’s Balakot terror camp at Manshera in Pakistan, retaliating to the February 14 attack by a Jaish suicide-bomber on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir.

News Afghanistan Nuristan: U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan identified

Published on: Sunday 14 July 2019
U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan identified
News source: https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/u-s-service-member-killed-in-afghanistan-identified/

TAMPA (WFLA) – The U.S. Army Special Operations Command has announced the identity of the soldier killed in combat. Sgt. Major James G. “Ryan” Sartor, 40, was killed on Saturday in the Faryab province of Afghanistan. Sartor was assigned to 3rd Infantry Division as in infantryman. Sartor was deployed to Iraq as an infantryman in […]

News Afghanistan Nuristan: Islamic State expands reach in Afghanistan, threatening West

Published on: Monday 10 June 2019
Islamic State expands reach in Afghanistan, threatening West
News source: http://www.startribune.com/islamic-state-expands-reach-in-afghanistan-threatening-west/511060051/

The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks on the United States and other Western countries, according to U.S. and Afghan security officials.

News Afghanistan Nuristan: ISIS is bigger threat than Taliban in Afghanistan and using attacks as 'practice' for Western ones

Published on: Sunday 09 June 2019
ISIS is bigger threat than Taliban in Afghanistan and using attacks as 'practice' for Western ones
News source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7123211/ISIS-bigger-threat-Taliban-Afghanistan-using-attacks-practice-Western-ones.html

The Afghanistan affiliate refers to itself as the Khorasan Province ... The area made up of the provinces of Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman was so dangerous the US-led coalition assigned an ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: Waigal, Afghanistan: ‘This War Will Never End Here’

Published on: Thursday 13 June 2019
Waigal, Afghanistan: ‘This War Will Never End Here’
News source: https://thediplomat.com/2019/06/waigal-afghanistan-this-war-will-never-end-here/

WAIGAL, NURISTAN, AFGHANISTAN – Nuristan means the “Land of Light.” But the poetically promising name is fallacious as the people in the center of Nuristan’s district of Waigal have not ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: FSAC Afghanistan Bulletin – November 2018

Published on: Saturday 26 January 2019
FSAC Afghanistan Bulletin – November 2018
News source: https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/fsac-afghanistan-bulletin-november-2018

Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC) has been a central part of the humanitarian response in Afghanistan since 2008 ... FSAC joint field mission to Nuristan Emergency Food Security Assessment ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: 'The Snow Leopard Project' Puts Spotlight On Afghanistan's Wildlife

Published on: Tuesday 22 January 2019
'The Snow Leopard Project' Puts Spotlight On Afghanistan's Wildlife
News source: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/23/686412256/the-snow-leopard-project-puts-spotlight-on-afghanistans-wild-life

For many, Afghanistan does not at first conjure up images of black bears and musk deer. But that's just what Alex Dehgan found when his team went there in hope of establishing the first national park.

News Afghanistan Nuristan: Anxious Times In Pakistan’s Pagan Valley

Published on: Sunday 14 April 2019
News source: https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistans-pagan-valley/29867489.html

Tense relations between the Kalash and their Muslim neighbors are not new. The Kalash previously inhabited what is now the Nuristan Province in Afghanistan, just on the other side of the border with ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: Poop, photos and genes indicate that endangered Kashmir musk deer is also present in Nepal: Study

Published on: Saturday 20 April 2019
News source: https://scroll.in/article/919857/poop-photos-and-genes-indicate-that-endangered-kashmir-musk-deer-is-also-present-in-nepal-study

“The western distribution of KMD is up to Nuristan, in northeast Afghanistan while the eastern distribution was assumed to be the Kashmir region in India.” Singh is a conservation officer with ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: Conservation may offer common ground in Afghan conflict

Published on: Monday 15 April 2019
News source: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/conservation-may-offer-common-ground-for-combatants-in-afghan-conflict/

Armed men in Nuristan. WCS/Alex Dehgan Remnants of the war in Afghanistan. WCS/Alex Dehgan Mongabay: And what are some of the similarities/cross-cutting issues between working in Afghanistan and ...

News Afghanistan Nuristan: ‘While Afghans demand peace, terrorists only inflict pain and suffering’: NATO SCR

Published on: Saturday 20 April 2019
News source: https://www.khaama.com/while-afghans-demand-peace-terrorists-only-inflict-pain-and-suffering-nato-scr-03771/

The NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Ambassador Nicholas Kay has strongly ... 3 Taliban commanders and their 10 fighters killed in Nuristan province Three commanders of the Taliban ...