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- During the nine-year 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 as a base for helicopter operations by Soviet forces.
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Jun 22, 2022 · Afghanistan was rocked by its deadliest earthquake in decades on Wednesday when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck the country’s east, killing more than 1,000 people and wounding many more,...
On December 30, 2009, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was picked up by Arghawan, an Afghan who was the chief of external security at Camp Chapman, at the border between Miranshah, Pakistan, and Khost, Afghanistan.
Jun 22, 2022 · Search and rescue operations were underway on Wednesday in Afghanistan’s Paktika and Khost provinces after the earthquake that struck there overnight, the United Nations’ emergency response ...
Jan 13, 2020 · It's been 10 years since Darren LaBonte's life ended at age 35 on a remote base in Afghanistan when a CIA operation went spectacularly wrong. A Jordanian doctor who tricked CIA officials into...
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Dec 6, 2019 · A triple agent blew himself up at Forward Operating Base Chapman — a U.S. military base in Khost, Afghanistan — killing seven CIA officers and one Jordanian officer.
Jan 8, 2010 · L ast week’s suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers in Khost, Afghanistan, underscores just how difficult a mission the agency — and the U.S. as a whole — faces in the country.
Jan 7, 2022 · As the August 2021 dissolution of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) illustrated, the United States and its allies’ effort to transform the nation faltered along a similar path tread by others during previous eras.
