Hekmatyar's stomping grounds include Kunar province, a sweep of heavily forested mountains in eastern Afghanistan.
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Four Taliban fighters also died in the attack, in the Shegal district of Kunar, which borders Pakistan.
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.
Some polling stations in eastern Kunar and Nuristan provinces did not open and others, including 100 in Ghor, opened without a security presence, according to Pajhwok.
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.
McChrystal said he has already seen counterinsurgency efforts reverse the momentum of the Taliban in such areas as central Helmand and parts of Kunar and Khost provinces.
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.
Pakistan retaliated by shelling Afghan villages in Kunar and Nuristan.
"They're still trying to come back, " said a senior coalition intelligence officer in an interview Wednesday from Afghanistan, describing the remote stronghold of al-Qaida in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, just across the Pakistan border.
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.
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