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Nuristan was the location of three of the missions in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King and the film inspired by it are set in "Kafiristan" (the earlier name of pre-Islamic Nuristan). Nuristan is the setting of the book Red Platoon by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha.
The Battle of Shok Valley, also known as Operation Commando Wrath, was a joint U.S.-Afghan raid designed to kill or capture Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) in the Shok Valley of Nuristan Province of Afghanistan on 6 April 2008. [2] Ten soldiers [3] belonging to U.S Army special forces and their combat cameraman ...
Battle of Kamdesh. The Battle of Kamdesh took place during the war in Afghanistan. It occurred on October 3, 2009, when a force of 300 Taliban assaulted the American Combat Outpost ("COP") Keating near the town of Kamdesh in Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan. The attack was the bloodiest battle for US forces since the Battle of Wanat in ...
Battle of Aranas. The Aranas ambush was an attack by the Taliban against a US-Afghan patrol returning from a tribal meeting. The Taliban inflicted heavy casualties on US-Afghan forces, and the Americans managed to evacuate with their wounded in the darkness.
The Nuristan region has been a prominent location for war, which has led to the death of many indigenous Nuristanis. [14] [15] Nuristan has also received abundance of settlers from the surrounding Afghan regions due to the borderline vacant location. [16] [17]
Operation Mountain Resolve was launched by a coalition led by the United States on 7 November 2003 in the Nuristan province and Kunar province in Afghanistan. It involved an airdrop into the Hindu Kush mountains by the U.S. 10th Mountain Division and resulted in the killing of Hezbi commander Ghulam Sakhee, a few clashes, and the finding of ...
This category includes grief, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and other forms of moral injury and mental disorders caused or inflamed by war. Between the start of the Afghan war in October 2001 and June 2012, the demand for military mental health services skyrocketed, according to Pentagon data. So did substance abuse within the ranks.
Combat Outpost Keating is best known as the setting of the Battle of Kamdesh which occurred on October 3, 2009. After an attack on October 3, 2009, where the base was nearly overrun, and 8 Americans and 4 Afghan defenders were killed, the base was abandoned and demolished by a bombing from an American B-1 bomber on the night of October 6th ...