Word: khost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what did those cruise missiles hit? Mostly the mountains around Khost, say the Afghans, claiming that 21 people died and 30 were injured. And what of the elusive terrorist chief, Osama Bin Laden? By all accounts, he got away unscathed. "When the U.S. began evacuating personnel from Pakistan and warning foreign aid workers to leave Afghanistan, Bin Laden's people knew something was brewing and made preparations," says TIME's New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk...
...frustrating years, the stalemated siege of the provincial capital of Khost symbolized the inability of the mujahedin to make significant gains against the forces of Soviet-backed President Najibullah. But that situation changed radically last week when the rebels, using anti-mine equipment and tanks, concluded a 19-day coordinated attack by overwhelming the defending forces. In the chaotic fighting, about 150 guerrillas and at least 200 government soldiers died...
...awkward time. Tired of waiting for the rebels to prove themselves on the battlefield, Washington has begun urging the resistance to meet Soviet demands that the Najibullah government be allowed to participate in any postwar national elections. But the rebels, bolstered by their sudden success in taking Khost, want to press on with the war. Nudging the fighting parties toward a permanent peace settlement may be harder than ever...
...Hussain's inner thighs and groin to his stomach, and the pink, raw flesh forms a vast inverted horseshoe two inches deep -- as if he had mounted a burning saddle that seared deep into his body. He was injured during an attack in a village called , Allishir, in the Khost province. The mujahedin were advancing, and the man next to Rahmat Hussain stepped on a mine. The man was blown to bits; when the doctors first treated Rahmat Hussain, they found a piece of the man's flesh lodged inside his wound. His father had died in battle a month...