Word: nangarhar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...verify, but one thing was clear last week: ferocious fighting was taking place in Afghanistan, some of it within a few miles of the Pakistani border. About 20,000 Soviet paratroopers, backed by Mi-24 helicopter gunships, artillery and armor, blasted the Afghan border provinces of Paktia and Nangarhar. They were resisted, at times in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, by an estimated 5,000 Afghan rebels known as mujahedin. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed on both sides. At least 300 rebel casualties were carried into refugee camps on the Pakistani side of the border. In the Afghan capital...
...hour later Danchev repeated the same bulletin. During the next hourly summary, he reported that the Afghan population was playing a greater role in defending the country "against bands infiltrated from the Soviet Union." He then intoned: "Reports in Kabul say that tribes living in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Paktia have joined in the struggle against the Soviet invaders...
...mujahidin (holy warriors) are limited by a lack of supplies, ammunition and even food, but they fight on with remarkable tenacity. On assignment for TIME, Photographer Steve McCurry accompanied a band of rebels on a raid near Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. About a mile from the University of Nangarhar, the rebels attacked a convoy of Afghan army trucks and captured three members of a military road-repair crew. Two tanks joined the skirmish on the army side, but the rebels fought on all afternoon, even after one of their number had been killed. That night, the rebels slipped...
...using to subdue Afghanistan. The unanimity of the witnesses' accounts-even allowing for some exaggeration-left little doubt that the Soviets were attempting to sanitize and seal the most porous part of the border with Pakistan by wiping out rebel resistance in Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces. Said one Pakistani official who has been trying to aid the nearly 600,000 refugees in his country: "Afghans arriving from Paktia, which is 100 miles away, say that helicopters are coming in and killing everything. We believe that the Soviets are trying to create a 25-km buffer zone...