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    Airstan Ilyushin Il-76TD transport aircraft, with seven Russian nationals on board, forcing it to land at Taliban-occupied Kandahar International Airport...
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  • Kandahar (Dari: قندهار, "Qandahar") is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban. Its original...
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    have begun as early as 3000 BCE, and the early city of Mundigak (near Kandahar in the south of the country) was a center of the Helmand culture. More...
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    Pashto: بارکزي, Bārakzī) is the name of a Pashtun tribe from present-day, Kandahar, Afghanistan. '"Barakzai" is a common name among the Pashtuns and it means...
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    Shindand Airbase, 3 bomber squadrons with Il-28s and one fighter/bomber squadron with MiG-17s 366th Fighter Wing, Kandahar Airfield 376th Independent Helicopter...
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  • Ilyushin Il-76 plane with seven Russian nationals on board. The aircraft was forced to land at a Taliban controlled airfield near Kandahar. The men were...
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    Oghuz Yabgu State (redirect from Oguz il)
    was founded in Eni-Kent which was an Oghuz yayla (summer village). Oghuz il extended from "Issyk Kul and Almalyk, in the south, to Sairam, in the west...
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    franchised location at the Canadian Forces operations base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The new Kandahar location opened on July 1, 2006, in a 40-foot (12 m) trailer...
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    regiment (Bamiyan) 40th Regiment (Paktia) 15th Infantry Division (Kandahar) 36th Brigade (Kandahar) 43rd Mountain Regiment (Zabul) Unknown brigade (Girishk, Helmand)...
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    the reign of King Zahir Shah. A Pashtun nationalist from Kakar tribe of Kandahar, Afghanistan, he began as a young teacher who made his way up to become...
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