The disappointment in Mr. Nouri's voice was palpable when he described the absolute annihilation of Afghan culture and society from more than thirty years' worth of instability, repression and destruction wrought from the Soviet occupation, the post-Soviet civil wars, Taliban rule and now the nine-year-old U.S.-led intervention.
SYKES-PICOT -- These ill-fated borders aren't holding up so well in the post U.S.-occupation era.
Tan is shortlisted for his second book, The Garden of Evening Mists, a beautifully immersive story of love and guilt which takes readers on a slow journey through the brutal second world war Japanese occupation of Malaya, the post-war emergency and more recent settled times.
Mr. Hassan, then the vice president of the Minnesota Somali Student Union, defended the occupation, posting an essay on Facebook assailing the insurgents as "a handful of thugs".
In the Resistance, Mr. Chaban-Delmas reached prominence fast, becoming de Gaulle's personal delegate for northern France in the last months of the 1940-44 occupation, a post he inherited from an officer who had been tortured to death by the Nazis.
The regime's tactics – which include the shooting of peaceful demonstrators – show that the post-occupation edifice built by the US is not much different from the assortment of American-backed dictatorships across north Africa and the Middle East.
So the lesson some ISAF strategists draw from the Soviet experience is less to do with the necessity for peace talks than about the durability of the post-occupation Afghan government until its plug was pulled from a socket in Moscow.
We analyze the post-occupation information recorded by the Peruvian National Bureau of Consumer Protection (INDECOPI from its acronym in Spanish), classifying the claims according to their root cause.
Most Iraqis indicated that they lacked confidence in al-Maliki's ability to lead the country in the post-occupation period.
He was moved to South Korea for occupation duties before being moved to Japan for the post-war occupation of that country.
