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Maidan Wardak Province

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Maidan Wardak Province (د ميدان وردگ ولايت, ولایت میدان وردک), also called Maidan Wardag or simply Wardak Province, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central east region of Afghanistan. [1]

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Abdul Ahad Wardak

Abdul Ahad Khan Wardak (c. 1880-1949) was a politician from northern Afghanistan.

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Abdul Basir Salangi

Abdul Basir Salangi or Abdul Baseer Salangi is the ethnic Tajik former Governor of Parwan Province in Afghanistan, and was a commander in the Afghan Civil War, aligned with Jamiat-e Islami and Ahmad Shah Massoud.

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Abdul Hamid Bahij

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Abdul Jabbar Naeemi

Abdul Jabbar Naeemi (Dari and عبدالجبار نعيمي) is an Afghan diplomat and politician.

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Abdul Qayum Wardak

Abdul Qayum Wardak (c. 1923–1999) was a politician from Afghanistan.

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Abdul Rahim Wardak

General Abdul Rahim Wardak (Pashto/عبدالرحیم وردگ; born 1945), an ethnic Pashtun, was the Defense Minister of Afghanistan.

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Abdul Salam Rocketi

Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi (born 1958, Naw Bahar District, Zabul Province) is a former Mujahideen "freedom fighter" and Taliban military commander who renounced his allegiance to run for the Parliament of Afghanistan in 2005, and for the Presidency in 2009.

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Abdul Wahab Wardak

Major General Abdul Wahab Wardak is from the Wardak Province of Afghanistan, and he is the Afghan Air Force Commander.

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Abdullah Wardak

Mohammad Jan Abdullah Wardak (1954 or 1955 – 13 September 2008) was an Afghan politician and former Mujahideen commander.

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Abobaker Mojadidi

Abobaker Mojadidi (Dari:ابوبکر مجددی) is a spiritual Muslim leader from Afghanistan.

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Adela Mohseni

Adela Mohseni is an Afghan women's rights activist.

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Afghan Armed Forces

The Afghan Armed Forces are the military forces of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)

This article covers the Afghan history between 28 April 1992, the day that a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the Republic of Afghanistan of President Mohammad Najibullah, and the Taliban's conquest of Kabul establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996.

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Afghan National Army

The Afghan National Army (ANA) is the land warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces.

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Afghan National Army Commando Corps

The Afghan National Army Commando Corps (formerly ANA Commando Brigade; ANA Commando Battalion) is an elite special operations commando force of Afghan National Army.

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Afghan National Police

The Afghan National Police (ANP; د افغانستان ملي پولیس; پلیس ملی افغانستان) is the national police force of Afghanistan, serving as a single law enforcement agency all across the country.

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Afghan presidential election, 2009

Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 20 August 2009.

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Afghan presidential election, 2014

Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 5 April 2014, with a second round held on 14 June.

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Afghan Women's Council

The Afghan Women's Council (AWC) (also known as the Women's Council) was an organization under the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978-87) and the Republic of Afghanistan between (1987-1992).

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Afghanistan–Turkey relations

Afghanistan–Turkey relations refers to bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Turkey.

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Al-Haj Suliman Yari

Al-Haj Suliman Yari (19 August 1936 – 10 May 2013) was an Afghan politician.

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Amin Wardak

Amin Wardak (born in 1951) was a major Afghan mujahideen leader who mostly fought against the Afghan communist regime and the Soviet invaders in his home region of Wardak Province during the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 80's.

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Anwar Dangar

Anwar Dangar was a commander from Shakar-Darrah (Shakar Dara), which is located approximately 25 kilometres north of Kabul, and was an ally of Burhanuddin Rabbani's Jamiat-e-Islami.

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Attan

Attan (اتڼ) is a form of dance that originated in Afghanistan.

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Award for Heroism

The Award for Heroism is an award of the United States Department of State.

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Baghdād, Afghanistan

Baghdād is a city in Wardak Province in central Afghanistan.

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Bamyan

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Bamyan Province

Bamyan Province (ولایت بامیان) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central highlands of the country.

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Band-e Sultan

The Sultan Dam or Band-e Sultan is a dam located on the Ghazni River in the Ghazni Province of Afghanistan.

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Band-e-Amir Dragons

Band-e-Amir Dragons (بند امير ښاماران Band-e-Amīr Khāmārān / Shāmārān; بند امیر شاماران) or Band-e-Amir Region is one of six first-class cricket teams in Afghanistan.

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Baraki Barak District

Baraki Barak District is situated in the western part of Logar Province, Afghanistan.

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Behsud (Hazara tribe)

The Behsud (alternatively Besud, Behsud, Behsudi or Basud) (بهسود) are one of the major tribes of the Hazara people of Hazarajat, central Afghanistan.

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Behsud, Maidan Wardak

Behsūd (بهسود) is a town in Maidan Wardak Province, central Afghanistan.

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Boeing CH-47 Chinook

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engine, tandem-rotor, heavy-lift helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol (later known as Boeing Rotorcraft Systems).

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Brigade La Fayette

The Brigade La Fayette, also named Task Force La Fayette, is a joint unit of the French forces in Afghanistan.

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Campaign against Sultan Masudi Hazaras

After the conquest of Kabul, Babur had imposed a large contribution of horses and sheep on the Sultan Masudi Hazaras and sent collectors to receive it.

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Chaki Wardak

Chak-i Wardak (چک وردګ) or simply Chak (چک) is a city along the Logar River (locally called "Chak River") in Maidan Wardak Province, central Afghanistan.

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Chaki Wardak Dam

The Chaki Wardak Dam (چک وردګ برېښناکوټ), or simply the Chak Dam (چک برېښناکوټ), is a dam near the Chak district center in Chaki Wardak District, Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Chaki Wardak District

Chaki Wardak (چک وردک, also known as Chak) is a district in the south of Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Char Asiab District

Char Asiab District (چهار آسیاب, Chahār Aasiāb Char Asiab, Chahar Asiab, Charasiab, Charasiah or Charasia) is a district, approximately 11 km (7 miles) south of the city of Kabul, and is situated in the southern part of Kabul province, Afghanistan.

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Day Mirdad District

Day Mirdad (also known as Jilga) is a district in the south of Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Districts of Afghanistan

This is a list of districts of Afghanistan, known as wuleswali (ولسوالۍ or wuləswāləi; شهرستان), which are one level below the provinces.

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Foreign hostages in Afghanistan

Kidnapping and hostage taking has become a common occurrence in Afghanistan following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

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Foreign relations of Afghanistan

Foreign relations of Afghanistan are handled by the nation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is headed by Salahuddin Rabbani.

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Foreign relations of Turkey

Foreign relations of the Republic of Turkey are the Turkish government's policies in its external relations with the international community.

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Gandharan Buddhism

Gandhāran Buddhism refers to the Buddhist culture of ancient Gandhāra which was a major center of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent from the 3rd century BCE to approximately 1200 CE.

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Gaw Kush (Wardak)

Gaw Kush (گاوکش.is a mountain of the Hindu Kush Range. The mountain is located in the province of Wardak, Afghanistan. Category:Hindu Kush Category:Two-thousanders of Afghanistan Category:Landforms of Maidan Wardak Province.

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Gīrō Qal‘ah

Gīrō Qal‘ah is the name of two villages in Afghanistan.

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General Khodaidad

Colonel General Khodaidad (خدایداد) is a former Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan.

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Geography of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Ghazni Province

Ghazni (غزنی; غزني) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southeastern part of the country.

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Ghulam Farooq Wardak

Ghulam Farooq Wardak (born 1959) is a politician in Afghanistan, formerly serving as the Minister of Education.

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Ghulan Mohammed Hotak

Ghulan Mohammed Hotak is a citizen of Afghanistan.

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (ګلبدين حکمتيار; گلبدین حکمتیار; born 1 August, 1949) is an Afghan politician and former warlord.

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Hajigak mining concession

Hajigak Mine is the best known and largest iron oxide deposit in Afghanistan, located near the Hajigak Pass, with its area divided between Maidan Wardak and Bamyan provinces.

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Hajigak Pass

The Hajigak Pass (حاجیگک) (hajji gak "little pilgrim") is situated at a height of above sea-level in the northern part of Maidan Wardak province, connecting it with Bamyan province to the northwest.

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Haqqani network

The Haqqani network is an Afghan guerrilla insurgent group using asymmetric warfare to fight against US-led NATO forces and the government of Afghanistan.

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Hazarajat

The Hazarajat (هزاره‌جات) or Hazaristan (هزارستان) is a regional name for the territory inhabited by the Hazara people, which lies in the central and southern highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush.

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Hazaras

The Hazaras (هزاره, آزره) are an ethnic group native to the region of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan, speaking the Hazaragi variant of Dari, itself an eastern variety of Persian and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.

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Helmand River

The Helmand River (also spelled Helmend, Helmund, Hirmand; Pashto/Persian: هیرمند, هلمند Hīrmand, Helmand, Greek: Ἐτύμανδρος (Etýmandros), Latin: Erymandrus) is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primary watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin.

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Hesa Awal Behsood District

Hisa-I-Awali Bihsud District is a district of Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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History of Arabs in Afghanistan

The history of Arabs in Afghanistan spans over one millennium, from the 11th century Islamic conquest when Arab ghazis arrived with their Islamic mission until recently when others from the Arab world arrived to defend fellow Muslims from the Soviet Union followed by NATO forces.

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History of the United States Army Special Forces

This article presents a history of the United States Army Special Forces, founded in 1952.

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Index of Afghanistan-related articles

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International Security Assistance Force

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan, established by the United Nations Security Council in December 2001 by Resolution 1386, as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement.

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Invasions of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia and South Asia.

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Islam in Afghanistan

Islam in Afghanistan began to be practiced after the Arab Islamic conquest of Afghanistan from the 7th to the 10th centuries, with the last holdouts to conversion submitting in the late 19th century.

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Islamic and National Revolution Movement of Afghanistan

The Islamic Revolution Movement (Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami, حرکت انقلاب اسلامی افغانستان) was a traditionalist Islamist (as opposed to revolutionary Islamist) Afghan mujahedeen group fighting against Soviet forces during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

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ISO 3166-2:AF

ISO 3166-2:AF is the entry for Afghanistan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Jaghatu

Jaghatu may refer to.

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Jaghatu District (Wardak)

Jaghatu is a district in Wardak province, Afghanistan, 20 km northwest of Ghazni.

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Jalrez District

Jalrez (Pashto/جلرېز) is a district in the west of Maidan Shar, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Kabul Province

Kābul (translit, translit), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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Kabul–Kandahar Highway

The Kabul–Kandahar Highway is a road linking Afghanistan's two largest cities, Kabul and Kandahar, passing through Maidan Shar, Saydabad, Ghazni, and Qalati Ghilji.

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Karim Khalili

Karim Khalili (کریم خلیلی) is the current chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council and the former Vice President of Afghanistan in the administration of President Hamid Karzai.

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Kharoti

Kharoti (Pashto: خروټی) is a Pashtun tribe, of Ghilji origin, based in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Kuchi–Hazara conflict

Kuchi–Hazara conflict is the series of conflicts between Kuchis and Hazaras over the lands in Hazarajat, the central highlands of Afghanistan, since the early 18th century.

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Leon Kristopher Smith

Leon Kristopher Smith, (24 July 1978 – 28 September 2011) was a New Zealand Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the New Zealand Gallantry Decoration and the Charles Upham Bravery Award for his actions when attempting to resuscitate a mortally wounded colleague, while responding to an insurgent attack on the British Council Offices in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2011.

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List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan

The following is a list aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan.

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List of current provincial governors in Afghanistan

This is a table chart of the current governors of Afghanistan.

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List of dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan

Dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan are used for irrigation, water supply, hydro-electric power generation or combination of these.

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List of FIPS region codes (A–C)

This is a list of FIPS 10-4 region codes from A-C, using a standardized name format, and cross-linking to articles.

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List of governors of Wardak

This is a list of the governors of the province of Wardak, Afghanistan.

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List of ISAF installations in Afghanistan

This is a list of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) installations in Afghanistan used during the NATO led War in Afghanistan from 2001–present.

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List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six

This is an incomplete list of operations conducted by the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group.

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List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 7,000 to 10,000 square kilometers

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List of schools in Afghanistan

This list of schools located in the Asian country of Afghanistan includes the country's primary and secondary schools.

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List of splits and creations of districts in Afghanistan

Here is a list of all the splits and creations within the districts of Afghanistan.

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List of terrorist incidents in February 2017

This is a timeline of terrorist attacks which took place in February 2017, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political, religious, or ideological motives.

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List of terrorist incidents in January–June 2013

This is a timeline of individual violent attacks which took place from January to June 2013, including attacks by state and non-state actors for political motives.

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List of terrorist incidents in July–December 2011

This is a timeline of individual violent attacks which took place from July to December, 2011, including attacks by state and non-state actors for political motives.

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List of terrorist incidents in July–December 2013

This is a timeline of terrorist incidents which took place from July to December 2013, including attacks by non-state actors for political motives.

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List of terrorist incidents in June 2016

This is a list of terrorist attacks and other incidents which occurred in June 2016.

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LiuGong

LiuGong, officially Guangxi LiuGong Machinery Co., Ltd., is a Chinese multinational construction machinery manufacturing company headquartered in Liuzhou, China.

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Logar Province

Logar (Pashto/لوگر) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern section of the country.

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Logar River

Logar River (also Lowgar) is a river of Afghanistan.

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Mahsud

The Mahsud or Mehsud (محسود), also spelled Maseed (ماسيد), is a Karlani Pashtun tribe inhabiting mostly the South Waziristan Agency in Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

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Maidan Shar

Maidan Shar (میدان ښار Maidān Shār/Maidān Khār; میدان شهر), also Maidan Shahr or Maidanshar, is the capital of Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Maidan Shar District

Maydan Shahr is a district in the east of Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Maidan Valley

Maīdān ٰٰٰValley (درهٔ میدان) is a valley in Afghanistan located in Wardak Province, in the north-eastern part of the country.

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Mansoor Ijaz

Mansoor Ijaz (born August 1961) is a Pakistani-American venture financier and hedge-fund manager.

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Markazi Bihsud District

Markaz-i Bihsūd District (ولسوالی مرکز بهسود) is a district of Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Matt Sherman (lawyer)

Matthew Sherman (born December 30, 1971) is a foreign affairs practitioner who has served as a senior advisor to the United States Department of State and Defense.

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Matthieu Aikins

Matthieu Aikins is a journalist and literary non-fiction writer best known for his reporting on the war in Afghanistan.

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May 2016 Afghanistan road crash

On Sunday, May 8, 2016, two buses and a fuel tanker collided on a major highway, killing at least 73 people in the Moqor district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan on the Kabul-Kandahar highway.

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Mellissa Fung

Mellissa Fung is a Canadian journalist with CBC News, appearing regularly as a field correspondent on The National.

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Milli Bus

Milli Bus (Pashto/Persian: ملي بس, National Bus), also spelt Millie Bus, is a government-run bus service operating across Afghanistan.

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Mir Yazdanbakhsh

Mir Yazdanbakhsh of Kharzar was a chieftain of the Hazara people in the Hazarajat of central Afghanistan in the 19th century.

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Miran, Afghanistan

Mīrān (ميران) is a city in Maidan Wardak Province, central Afghanistan.

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Mohammad Amin Wakman

Mohammad Amin Wakman (محمد امين واکمن - born 1939) is the Honorary Chairman and Director of International Affairs of Afghan Millat Party.

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Mohammad Daud Miraki

Mohammed Daud Miraki (محمد داؤد ميره کی) is an Afghan activist, writer and politician.

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Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan

Muhammad Arif Shah Jahan (محمد عارف شاه جهان) is the current governor of Wardak Province and the former governor of Farah province in Afghanistan.

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Musa Hotak

Musa Hotak is an Afghan military leader and politician from Maidan Shar of Wardak Province.

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Muslim conquests of Afghanistan

The Muslim conquests of Afghanistan began during the Muslim conquest of Persia as the Arab Muslims were drawn eastwards to Khorasan, Sistan and Transoxiana.

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Najibullah (militant leader)

Najibullah (نجیب ﷲ; born 1979), often referred to as Mullah Najibullah or Hajji Najibullah, and also known by the pseudonym Omar Khitab (Arabic: عمر خطاب), is the leader of the Taliban splinter group Fidai Mahaz in Afghanistan.

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Nasher (Kharoti clan)

The Nashir (Dari: الناشر, Persian: الناشر, Arabic: الناشر) are a noble Afghan family and Khans of the Pashtun Kharoti (Ghilji) tribe.

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New Zealand Special Air Service

The New Zealand Special Air Service, abbreviated as the NZSAS, was formed on 7 July 1955 and is the special forces unit of the New Zealand Army, closely modelled on the British Special Air Service (SAS).

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Nirkh District

Nirkh is a district of about 480 square kilometres in the east of Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Outline of Afghanistan

The location of Afghanistan An enlargeable map of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Afghanistan: Afghanistan – landlocked sovereign country located in Central Asia.

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Paghman District

Paghman District is situated in the western part of Kabul Province, Afghanistan.

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Pakistanis in Afghanistan

Pakistanis in Afghanistan are mostly refugees, but also include laborers, traders, businesspersons, and small number of diplomats.

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Parwan Province

Parwān (Persian/Pashto: پروان), also spelled Parvān, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan.

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Pashto

Pashto (پښتو Pax̌tō), sometimes spelled Pukhto, is the language of the Pashtuns.

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Pashto dialects

Pashto dialects (د پښتو ګړدودونه da Pax̌to gəṛdoduna) are divided into two varieties, the "hard" northern variety Pax̌to, and the "soft" southern variety Paṣ̌to.

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Pomegranate production in Afghanistan

Pomegranate production in Afghanistan is a significant contributor to the Afghan agricultural economy.

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Pre-Islamic scripts in Afghanistan

Afghanistan possesses a rich linguistic legacy of pre-Islamic scripts, which existed before being displaced by the Arabic alphabet, after the Islamic conquest of Afghanistan.

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Provinces of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is made up of 34 provinces (ولايت wilåyat).

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Qanat

A qanāt (قنات) is a gently sloping underground channel to transport water from an aquifer or water well to surface for irrigation and drinking.

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Qawme Dehqan

Qawme Dehqan is an area of Beshud II in Wardak Province in central Afghanistan.

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Rahmatullah Nabil

Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician.

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Rahmatullah Raufi

1Major General Rahmatullah Raufi (born 1948 in Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan) is a former governor of Kandahar from August 2008 until he was sacked on December 4, 2008.

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Raz Mohammed Dalili

Raz Mohammed Dalili (born 1959) was the former Governor of Paktia Province in Afghanistan from 2002 until 2004.

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Rish Khor prison

Rish Khor is a prison on an Afghan military base that former captives report was run by Americans.

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Rohullah Nikpai

Rohullah Nikpai (روح‌الله نیکپا, born June 15, 1987) is an Afghan taekwondo practitioner and two-time Olympic bronze medalist.

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Samandar

Samandar may refer to.

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Sanglakh Valley

Sanglākh (سنگلاخ) is a valley in Afghanistan located in the province of Maidan Wardak, in the central part of the country.

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Saydabad

Saydābād (سيد اباد) is a city in Maidan Wardak Province, central Afghanistan.

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Saydabad District

Saydabad District (سیدآباد) is a district of Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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September 2016 Afghanistan road crash

On 3 September 2016, at least 38 people were killed and 28 were injured after a fuel tanker carrying two people collided with a passenger bus carrying over 60 people on the dangerous Kabul-Kandahar highway in the province of Zabul, Afghanistan.

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Shabash

Shābāsh (Hindi: शाबाश, Urdu: شاباش, Punjabi: ਸ਼ਾਬਾਸ਼, Bengali: শাবাশ, Telugu: శబాష్) is a term used in the Indian subcontinent to signal commendation for an achievement, similar in meaning to bravo and kudos.

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Shamshad TV

Shamshad TV is a satellite television station in Afghanistan, which was launched in early 2006.

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Sher Alam Ibrahimi

Hajii Sher Alam Ibrahimi was the governor of Ghazni Province from around 2005–2006 until 2007 and is a major commander aligned with Ittihad-i Islami and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, having fought with him in the Afghan Civil War.

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Shibar District

Shibar District (pop.: 25,532 in the year 2011) is located in the western end of the Bamyan Province in Afghanistan.

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Shibar Pass

Shibar Pass is situated at a height of 3,000 m above sea-level, connecting Parwan Province with Bamyan Province.

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Shpageeza Cricket League

The Shpageeza Cricket League (SCL, also known as the Alokozay Cola Shpageeza Cricket League for sponsorship reasons) (شپږیزه کريکټ لیګ) is a cricket tournament organized by the Afghanistan Cricket Board every year at the Alokozay Kabul International Cricket Ground, Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (United States)

The Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 10th Mountain Division was a special troops battalion of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Drum, New York.

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Sulaimankhel

The Sulaimankhel (سليمان خېل), or Suleiman Khel, are a Pashtun sub-tribe of the Ghilji tribe of Bettani confederation of Pashtuns.

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Taliban propaganda

Taliban propaganda has, since the 2001 fall of their national government in Afghanistan, developed into a sophisticated public relations machine that is shaping perceptions in Afghanistan and abroad.

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Taliban Provincial Governors

Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton republished a United Nations list of senior Taliban leaders that included Taliban Provincial Governors.

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Taliban's rise to power

This is a timeline of the background of the Taliban's rise to power.

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Tangi Valley

Tangi Valley (also known as Wardak Valley or Tangi Wardak) is located in the south of Wardak Province in Afghanistan.

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Tara

Tara may refer to.

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The IFC Media Project

The IFC Media Project is an American television series, which airs on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) in the United States.

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Timeline of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The following items form a partial timeline of the War in Afghanistan.

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Turkish Armed Forces

The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey.

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Turks in Afghanistan

Turks in Afghanistan are Turkish people who live in Afghanistan.

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Unai Pass

Unai Pass (el. 3000 m.) is located in the Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan.

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United Nations subregions of Afghanistan

The United Nations has defined seven sub-regions in Afghanistan for their assistance planning, which are grouped in three regions.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan (or the U.S. War in Afghanistan; code named Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan (2001–2014) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–present)) followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of October 7, 2001.

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War in Afghanistan order of battle, 2012

Below is the disposition and structure of international military forces that were participating in the War in Afghanistan in November 2012, listing deployed units under the command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which controlled both combat and reconstruction operations (often led by the Provincial Reconstruction Teams).

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Wardak

Wardak may refer to.

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Wardak (Pashtun tribe)

The Wardak (وردګ) or Wardag are a family from the Karlani subgroup of the Pashtuns in central and eastern Afghanistan, mainly found in Maidan Wardak Province.

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Wardak Vase

The Wardak Vase is the name of an ancient globular-shaped buddhist copper vase that was found as part of a stupa relic deposit in the early nineteenth century near Chaki Wardak in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan

The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan describes the draw down of United States Armed Forces in the Afghanistan war and the plans after its post-2014 presence when most combat troops had left Afghanistan at the end of 2014.

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10th Mountain Division

The 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) is a light infantry division in the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York.

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15th Infantry Regiment (United States)

The 15th United States Infantry Regiment is a parent regiment in the United States Army.

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173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team

The 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team ("Sky Soldiers") is an airborne infantry brigade combat team of the United States Army based in Vicenza, Italy.

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2002 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 2002 in Afghanistan.

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2003 in Afghanistan

2003 in Afghanistan.

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2004 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 2004 in Afghanistan.

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2007 in Afghanistan

Events from the year 2007 in Afghanistan.

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2010 Badakhshan massacre

On 5 August 2010, ten members of International Assistance Mission (IAM) Nuristan Eye Camp team were killed in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan.

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2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown

On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, Call Sign "Extortion 17," was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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2011 in Afghanistan

Events from the year 2011 in Afghanistan.

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2011 in the United States

Events in the year 2011 in the United States.

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2013 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Afghanistan.

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2016 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Afghanistan.

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2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment

The 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment is a United States Army infantry battalion.

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30 June 2016 Afghanistan bombings

On June 30, 2016, at least 40 people were killed and 50 people were wounded after two Taliban suicide bombers attacked police cadets returning from a graduation ceremony west of the capital city, Kabul.

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3rd Cavalry Regiment (United States)

The 3rd Cavalry Regiment, formerly 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment ("Brave Rifles") is a regiment of the United States Army currently stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.

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75th Ranger Regiment (United States)

The 75th Ranger Regiment, also known as Army Rangers, is a light infantry airborne special operations force that is part of the United States Army Special Operations Command.

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9th Engineer Battalion (United States)

The 9th Engineer Battalion is a unit of the United States Army that deploys to designated contingency areas and conducts combat and/or stability operations in support of a brigade combat team.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidan_Wardak_Province

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