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Le News
April 3, 2018
Ed Girardet (second row centre) with Afghan guerrillas during the 1980s in the Pech Valley, now in the hands of the Taliban. Engagement does not mean acquiescence. None of this obviously dangerous work, including two encounters with Osama Bin Laden, stopped him from publicly denouncingÃâà...
KQED
March 11, 2018
The base is located on the edge of the Pech Valley, surrounded by mountainous terrain in Afghanistan's Kunar province. In April 2017, Wong commented on a Facebook discussion about veterans healthcare. "I did not seek assistance for a long time. Doing much better now," Wong wrote. "VA Santa RosaÃâà...
The Intercept
January 27, 2018
Because the road into Pech Valley toward Gambir was famously treacherous, a kind of buddy system had developed among cab drivers. That morning, Abdul Rashid had been trying to coordinate the journey with his friend and relative, Mohibullah, but by early afternoon, he had decided to go ahead withoutÃâà...
WTOP
December 29, 2017
When Staff Sgt. John Tyler Guy enlisted in 2007, he didn't think he'd make a commitment to the Army, for one simple reason. Five deployments later, including service in Iraq, Afghanistan and Djibouti, Guy is taking a longer view. SPC Jesse Snow (left deceased) and SSG Guy (right) during a three dayÃâà...
New York Times
August 22, 2017
KABUL, Afghanistan — Soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States military's attention turned to Afghanistan, where Al Qaeda's leaders were based. The world awaited an invasion that many knew was sure to come. What nobody knew was that the invasion to rout the Taliban and Al QaedaÃâà...
New York Times
August 31, 2013
It was their first return to the Pech Valley — a rugged swath of eastern Afghanistan so violent they nicknamed it the Valley of Death — since the American military abruptly ended an offensive against the Taliban here in 2011 after taking heavy casualties. But the Americans, from the First Battalion of the 327thÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
August 4, 2011
No casualties resulted from a mortar strike in late July on a building where U.S. soldiers were staying at Nangalam Base, known as Forward Operating Base Blessing until the U.S. Army turned it over to Afghan forces in February. U.S. soldiers are moving back into the base in the Pech Valley of KunarÃâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2011
It was the second Taliban success in recent days in the general area of the strategic Pech Valley, which American troops are in the process of withdrawing from and turning over to Afghan authorities. “The white flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is flying over the Want district center, while someÃâà...
New York Times
March 29, 2011
It was the second Taliban success in recent days in the general area of the strategic Pech Valley, which American troops are in the process of withdrawing from and turning over to Afghan authorities. “The white flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is flying over the Want district center, while someÃâà...
Long War Journal
February 28, 2011
US Army Sergeant David M. Pooler, of 1st Platoon, Able Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, scans the area across the Kunar River as he provides security in the Noorgal district of Kunar province, Afghanistan, May 1, 2010 as part of a communityÃâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2011
The previous strategy emphasized denying sanctuaries to insurgents, blocking infiltration routes from Pakistan and trying to fight away from populated areas, where NATO 's superior firepower could be massed, in theory, with less risk to civilians. The Pech Valley effort was once a cornerstone of this thinkingÃâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2011
The withdrawal from the Pech Valley, a remote region in Kunar Province, formally began on Feb. 15. The military projects that it will last about two months, part of a shift of Western forces to the province's more populated areas. Afghan units will remain in the valley, a test of their military readiness.
Stars and Stripes
August 11, 2010
If this pace continues, this year will go down as the heaviest artillery fight in the Pech valley since the war started. It's a two-way fight. Insurgents often target the big guns when they launch their remote attacks on the base. Just when everyone else is running for cover to return fire, the artillery men and theirÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
August 4, 2010
PECH RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan — In this wild and outlaw region of rugged mountains, where fighting is a way of life, insurgents fire down onto U.S. bases dotting the river valley not from a single peak or ridgeline, but from two or three at a time. American soldiers are in a complex and unrelenting battleÃâà...
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