Hekmatyar's stomping grounds include Kunar province, a sweep of heavily forested mountains in eastern Afghanistan.
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The three are accused of being a supply chain that brought two bottles of poison from Pakistan, via Kunar province, to Takhar.
Chris Kolenda, whom I met on a far-flung FOB in a remote corner of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, a few miles from the Pakistan border.
Sgt Meyer was a corporal when the Taliban ambushed his patrol in Kunar province, Afghanistan, on 8 September 2009, according to the official Medal of Honor citation.
However, border tensions remain and on Monday Afghan officials said a couple in eastern Kunar province had been killed by four rockets fired from the Pakistani side.
Scott Sentell, the U.S. brigade's executive officer, was one of the soldiers who tried in 2011 to transfer control of Camp Blessing in Kunar Province to Afghan forces.
The mission, called Operation Strong Eagle I, was to clear the Ghaki Valley in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan of entrenched insurgents, said his former platoon leader, Capt.
The militants began their raid on the town of Shaltalo in a remote, mountainous corner of Upper Dir district, near the border with Kunar province of Afghanistan, on Tuesday.
Senior Americans say cross-border liaison has improved, particularly in the east (for example along the border with Kunar province), but some Afghans in high positions think this is a sham.
Miller distinguished himself by extraordinary acts of heroism while serving as the weapons sergeant in Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 3312, Special Operations Task Force 33, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan, during combat operations against an armed enemy in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on January 25th, 2008.
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As U.S. military, Pakistani forces and Afghan officials sought to piece together the incident, Afghan, U.S. and Western officials said the attack took place in response to fire from the remote Pakistani posts in the Mohmand tribal region, a lawless border area that abuts Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province.
While there has been repeated Pakistani shelling in the remote areas of Kunar and Nuristan province in recent years, such cross-border firing is new to Goshta.
The military were furious at the alleged connivance by Afghan intelligence in giving sanctuary to the militant Pashtun leader from Swat, Mullah Fazlullah who had established a base in the Afghan province of Kunar.
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