Kandahar

Oppressed, Inferior, and Unequal We all know that women’s rights are a big struggle in Afghanistan. It was worse when Afghanistan was under the Taliban rule. These women were treated unfairly, beaten for the slightest wrong move, raped, and thrown out like trash. Some women are putting up a fight and really trying to get their freedom. Unfortunately, the Afghanistan society and the way things were being ran before the Taliban fell are keeping these women from achieving the goal they want, and…

Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan. The Major and SMS were making their rounds to the respective bases where their candidates were located. In all cases, the candidates nor their own command knew that they were even being considered and they were going to be interviewed. They were crisscrossing the United States, then Europe didn’t find anyone candidate to their liking or any that were willing to commit. There next stop was Afghanistan where they had three potential candidates all…

Panjwai, Kandahar, Afghanistan, known as the heart of the Taliban, the birthplace; and I am headed there. I had just said goodbye to my wife whom at this point I have been married to for 4 months, and was now on my way to a combat deployment. My emotions were all over the place. I knew that I have to be the strong soldier for my peers, the soldier my leaders can trust and depend on, but I am also the loving husband that had to say goodbye to his wife. Furthermore, I knew that this could quite…

Afghanistan is a country with a deep history. Many famous people have encountered the country including Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world with little to offer agriculturally. This paper describes Afghanistan’s population in spite of the country’s instability due to their physical environment, dysfunctional military, and lack of money. Afghanistan is a country surrounded by land. Its nearest coast line it the Arabian…

“We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.” – Osama Bin Laden. The words of the terrorist who planned the devastating September 11 attacks on the world trade center in the United States. The initiation of the war in Afghanistan was the corrupt government and the civil war. The Taliban, one of the controversial sides blamed the U.S. for their problems, and they had much hatred stored for America and were prepared to do something about it. On September 11, 2001,…

and a suicide bomb death toll adds by a shocking 80%. On May 2nd, 2011, Osama Bin Laden is finally killed by the U.S. military in Pakistan by order of Pres. Barack Obama. The same month, 500 Taliban prisoners escape Kandahar prison in Afghanistan. Just two months later, the Kandahar governor is killed by the Taliban along with Pres. Obama’s…

the largest single recipient of Canadian aid. Canada’s military focused four objectives on Kandahar. It included: maintaining a secure environment and the establishment of law and order, providing jobs and education, providing humanitarian assistance to people in need, and enhancing the management and security of the Afghanistan border(mappleleafweb.com). Canada sent a provincial reconstruction team to Kandahar, which had two hundred military and civilian personnel. Their job was to assist in…

government refused to reveal Bin Laden’s hiding place. The province that Canada was responsible for was Kandahar, which was presumably the most dangerous province in Afghanistan. It was considered the most dangerous because the province had many improvised explosive devices (IEDs), such as land mines, suicide attacks, and ambushes. These constant threats were a danger to the Canadian troops in Kandahar. Canada sent its first element of Canadian soldiers, the Joint Task Force 2. Then, more…

was injured in November 2007 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. I was commanding the vanguard of a combat team leaving a patrol base to conduct a night operation in the Zharay district. Shortly after our departure and ‘shake-out’ into formation, my command vehicle was hit by a Command-Wired IED that defeated the armour and safety systems aboard our Light Armoured Vehicles. The initial blast and subsequent fire that spread to the ammunition and explosives we were carrying generated three Killed-in-Action…

the leader of the movement, were simple village ulema (Islamic religious scholars). Taliban legend has it that in the spring of 1994, upon hearing of the abduction and rape of two girls at a mujahideen checkpoint in the village of Sang Hesar near Kandahar, local mullah Mohammed Omar, a veteran of the Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami faction of the mujahideen, gathered thirty other taliban into a fighting force, rescued the girls…