Word: shulgarah
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...fire, forcing Dostum to order his forces to fall back. Sitting astride his dark bay pony, he radioed for the cavalry. By the next night, after "very fierce" fighting, the Alliance broke through. A local uprising against the Taliban sent the regime's men running from the district capital, Shulgarah. The treacherous Shulgarah Pass?a narrow ravine 14 miles southwest of Mazar where the Alliance had expected to be ambushed by enemy gunners?had been abandoned by Taliban troops before the Alliance arrived...
...fire, forcing Dostum to order his forces to fall back. Sitting astride his dark bay pony, he radioed for the cavalry. By the next night, after "very fierce" fighting, the Alliance broke through. A local uprising against the Taliban sent the regime's men running from the district capital, Shulgarah. The treacherous Shulgarah Pass--a narrow ravine 14 miles southwest of Mazar where the Alliance had expected to be ambushed by enemy gunners--had been abandoned by Taliban troops before the Alliance arrived...
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