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Central Telegraph
March 10, 2018
Under the leadership of a new captain, the Green Berets were embedded with an Afghan warlord (future Afghan vice-president General Abdul Rashid Dostum) to take down the Taliban. The group was nicknamed the "horse soldiers" because horses were General Dostum's preferred mode of transport inÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 4, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — When President Ashraf Ghani stood up last week to try to lure the Taliban to peace talks, promising them amnesty and political inclusion, he could point to a recent example: the deal that brought the militant group Hezb-i-Islami and its deeply divisive leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar,ÃÂ ...
Traverse City Record Eagle
February 23, 2018
12 Strong: This is the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. Rated R for war violence and language throughout. (C14). Information is based on data available atÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 23, 2017
When Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a fugitive Afghan warlord and former ally of al-Qaida and the Taliban, returned this year to the city he had once showered with rockets, he was welcomed at the presidential palace. Hekmatyar had been on lists of internationally wanted terrorists for years but, since his return toÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
May 30, 2017
Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan on May 30 gunned down a close aide and relative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan militant leader who signed a peace deal with the government last year, officials said. Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami party identified the slain man as Mohammad Fareed and blamedÃÂ ...
CNN
May 4, 2017
(CNN) One of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has returned to the Afghan capital Kabul after nearly two decades in exile, reported Tolo, an Afghan news agency. The return of Hekmatyar, a former prime minister, comes eight months after the government signed a peace dealÃÂ ...
Traverse City Record Eagle
February 24, 2018
12 Strong: This is the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. Rated R for war violence and language throughout. (C14). Information is based on data available atÃÂ ...
Reno News & Review
February 22, 2018
Not to mention the LGBTQIA denouncement of the decision allowing the Afghan warlords to march with their preteen boy sex slaves in the Gays in the Military contingent as a return to tired old stereotypes. Hopefully, we'll know soon which proxy armies can join the MAGA Military Parade. Most of the killingÃÂ ...
Redbrick
February 6, 2018
12 Strong tells the true story of the Horse Soldiers; twelve special forces operatives who are sent into Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attack, to help an Afghan warlord remove the Taliban from the country. Without near extraction or close American back up, the chances of survival were very low.
RAWA News
January 30, 2018
Today, the Afghan warlords, former jihadi leaders and regional strongmen who emerged from the ashes of the Taliban regime as the 9/11 profiteers, broadly constitute the country's influential political elites. These elites have effectively criminalized the Afghan politics with many involved in illicit activities,ÃÂ ...
Purcell Register
January 25, 2018
Based on a true story, this film follows the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Hoping to strike a serious blow against the Taliban, Captain Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth) and his team join forces with an Afghan warlord (Navid Negahban) to defeat their commonÃÂ ...
The Sarnia Journal
January 22, 2018
12 Strong. Days after 9/11, a team of American Special Forces soldiers were assembled and sent to Afghanistan to join forces with an Afghan warlord and take out the Taliban hold on the city of Mazar-I-Sharif (the country's 4th largest city and headquarters of the Taliban training camps). In order to completeÃÂ ...
TVO
December 29, 2017
Plus, if we understood him correctly, he personally knew the most notorious and well funded of the Afghan warlords, Rashid Dostum. He had served in Dostum's army— as a general, no less. And he was willing to be critical of Dostum and all the warlords. Publicly. This was what we in journalism call “a get.
KERA News
December 29, 2017
You're probably sick and tired of your geeky friends making “May the Fourth be with you” jokes on Facebook. Well, if you want a topical Star Wars reference to strike back with, then you can tell them to take a look at Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Hekmatyar, nicknamed “The Butcher of Kabul,”à...
The Guardian
October 23, 2017
When Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a fugitive Afghan warlord and former ally of al-Qaida and the Taliban, returned this year to the city he had once showered with rockets, he was welcomed at the presidential palace. Hekmatyar had been on lists of internationally wanted terrorists for years but, since his return toÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
May 30, 2017
Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan on May 30 gunned down a close aide and relative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan militant leader who signed a peace deal with the government last year, officials said. Hekmatyar's Hezb-i Islami party identified the slain man as Mohammad Fareed and blamedÃÂ ...
CNN
May 4, 2017
(CNN) One of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has returned to the Afghan capital Kabul after nearly two decades in exile, reported Tolo, an Afghan news agency. The return of Hekmatyar, a former prime minister, comes eight months after the government signed a peace dealÃÂ ...
Firstpost
May 4, 2017
Kabul: Former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul on Thursday after two decades in hiding, calling for peace with Taliban insurgents and criticising the Western-backed government, which he said was not working. Hekmatyar's comments in a ceremony at the presidential palaceÃÂ ...
New York Times
May 4, 2017
“Hekmatyar is not alone in enjoying impunity; none of the Afghan warlords from the 1990s has been held accountable,” Ms. Gossman said. “As the war churns on, killing an ever-increasing number of civilians and driving desperate Afghans to join the flood of refugees fleeing to Europe, it's clear how high aÃÂ ...
The National
February 11, 2017
Kabul // For more than three decades, the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has operated as a surreptitious fighter, warring against a succession of foes: the Soviets in the 1980s, mujaheddin groups, his country's government, international troops. Hekmatyar's brutality towards Afghan civilians made himÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 4, 2017
The United Nations has removed notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar from its list of designated terrorists following his recent peace agreement with the Kabul government. “Therefore, the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo ... no longer apply to him,” the U.N. Security Council'sÃÂ ...
Traverse City Record Eagle
December 31, 1999
12 Strong: This is the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. Rated R for war violence and language throughout. (C14, GAR). Information is based on data availableÃÂ ...
Arab News
November 13, 2017
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar speaks to supporters in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan on April 30, 2017. (File photo by Reuters).
Common Dreams
November 13, 2017
In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, the Bush White House unleashed a lethal combination of U.S. airpower and CIA-funded Afghan warlords ...
DunyaNews Pakistan
November 6, 2017
That Dostum has not been prosecuted over the incident is seen by many as further evidence of how Afghan warlords and strongmen operate ...
The Hindu
October 28, 2017
Former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar arrives to speak to supporters in Laghman Province, Afghanistan on April 29, 2017.
The Guardian
October 23, 2017
When Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a fugitive Afghan warlord and former ally of al-Qaida and the Taliban, returned this year to the city he had once ...
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
October 22, 2017
Afghan men offer funeral prayers behind the body of civilian killed in Friday night's suicide attack at the Shiite mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan on ...
The Hindu
October 22, 2017
An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a former warlord and his bodyguard, and wounded eight other people. Khalil Aseir, spokesman for ...
Daily Pakistan
October 22, 2017
KABUL – A former warlord and his bodyguard were killed while eight other wounded in an explosion in a hotel in Afghanistan's northern ...
DAWN.com
August 5, 2017
Afghan warlord and ex-prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rejected any increase in the United States (US) troops in Afghanistan on Saturday ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
May 30, 2017
Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan on May 30 gunned down a close aide and relative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan militant leader who ...
CNN
May 4, 2017
(CNN) One of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has returned to the Afghan capital Kabul after nearly two decades in ...
New York Times
May 4, 2017
“Hekmatyar is not alone in enjoying impunity; none of the Afghan warlords from the 1990s has been held accountable,” Ms. Gossman said.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 29, 2017
Afghan Warlord Hekmatyar Calls For Peace In Public Speech. April 29, 2017 10:04 GMT. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar made his calls for peace in his first public ...
BBC News
February 4, 2017
The UN has dropped sanctions against former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for him to return to the country.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
I have celebrated the holiday at a Chinese restaurant with Turkish artists and writers, over kebabs with Afghan warlords, and by splitting up the ...
Digital Journal
December 31, 1999
That Dostum has not been prosecuted over the incident is seen by many as further evidence of how Afghan warlords and strongmen operate ...
Truthdig
August 24, 2017
... with Hoh that the U.S.-supported government in Kabul has collapsed and isn't providing any security against the various Afghan warlords.
New York Times
August 18, 2017
... 2017, on Page A5 of the New York edition with the headline: Infighting Among Afghan Warlords Resembles a Destructive 'Game of Thrones'.
DAWN.com
August 5, 2017
Afghan warlord and ex-prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rejected any increase in the United States (US) troops in Afghanistan on SaturdayÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
August 3, 2017
Most “weren't battlefield captives,” he said, calling many “bounty babies” — men captured by Afghan warlords or Pakistani security forces.
Press TV
August 1, 2017
This file photograph taken on April 23, 2003, shows Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam speaking at a ceremony in Sheberghan, AfghanistanÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
May 30, 2017
Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan on May 30 gunned down a close aide and relative of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan militant leader whoÃÂ ...
BBC News
May 5, 2017
Afghanistan's conflict-weary citizens have cautiously welcomed the return of warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to Kabul. The leader ofÃÂ ...
Firstpost
May 4, 2017
Kabul: Former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul on Thursday after two decades in hiding, calling for peace with TalibanÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
April 29, 2017
Afghan warlord and ex-premier, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, has called on the Taliban to lay down their weapons and enter peace talks with theÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 29, 2017
Afghan Warlord Hekmatyar Calls For Peace In Public Speech. April 29, 2017 10:04 GMT. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar made his calls for peace in his first publicÃÂ ...
The National
February 11, 2017
Kabul // For more than three decades, the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has operated as a surreptitious fighter, warring against aÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 4, 2017
The UN has dropped sanctions against former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for him to return to the country.
