That objective, too, became more complicated when the Taliban captured and summarily executed Commander Abdul Haq, an important figure in the anti-Taliban uprising, who had re-entered Afghanistan from his exile in Pakistan.
While the mainstream rebels struggled to defend their frontlines from the resurgent Assad regime, a renegade al Qaeda offshoot the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS launched a series of assaults on the formerly-dominant FSA brigades from behind, capturing their strongholds in rebel-held northern Syria and executing their commanders.
While the mainstream rebels struggled to defend their frontlines from the resurgent Assad regime, a renegade al Qaeda offshoot – the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – launched a series of assaults on the formerly dominant FSA brigades from behind, capturing their strongholds in rebel-held northern Syria and executing their commanders.
The insurgents targeted and executed military commanders, local government authorities and police, and those who had collaborated with the Japanese during Japan's decades-long occupation of Korea (which concluded with the end of World War II).
"I come from a place where if you're not in a position to execute the commander's intent, you have a singular option, that is to leave".
The exhibition, which will move to Washington's Corcoran Gallery in June and then the Brooklyn Museum in November, includes some of the best-known photographs of war, including Joe Rosenthal's shot of Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima and Eddie Adams's image of a South Vietnamese police commander executing a Viet Cong operative with a silver revolver.
Senior American commanders feared executing Mr. Hashem partly because of how his hanging would affect efforts to persuade Sunnis to reconcile with a government now dominated by Shiites.
Pir Muhammad, an alliance commander here, said Taliban leaders on Wednesday executed five local commanders who were suspected of negotiating with the alliance.
Security plan: Prior to executing an operation, the commander should instruct his soldiers on what to say if they are captured.
Eddie Adams's picture of South Vietnam's police commander summarily executing a captured Vietcong guerrilla officer on a Saigon street during the 1968 Tet Offensive — an image widely considered the picture of the war, but one that Mr. Adams would not display in his New York studio in later years because he felt it didn't tell the whole story.
