Sentence examples for small afghan from inspiring English sources

Mati arrived in England aged 14 from a small Afghan farming village.

He carried a letter for President Bush with a message from Mullah Omar and also a gift, a small Afghan rug of bright yellows, oranges and reds.

In 1987, now aged 30, Bin Laden took part in a battle in the hills around the small Afghan town of Jaji.

In addition, some American officials said, even a small Afghan Army might be effective, because the bands of fighters they have to contend with would be smaller.

A small Afghan news agency, quoting a government spokesman, announced that the Taliban had placed Mr. bin Laden under house arrest.

Yet this small Afghan village was once famous for the catastrophe that took place there during the First Anglo-Afghan War in January 1842, arguably the greatest humiliation ever suffered by a Western army in the East.

That smaller Afghan force is now stretched.

Dostam's Uzbeks and the other smaller Afghan ethnic groups might even form an independent state, a development that could increase centrifugal tendencies in neighboring multiethnic states.

The international community, led by the United States, has agreed to pay roughly $4.1 billion in aid per year for the Afghan security forces after 2014, based on estimates of what a smaller Afghan security contingent would cost.

At negotiations in Germany this week, the smaller Afghan factions have said they would support an international security force, and today the Northern Alliance was more open to an international approach, though it continued to prefer an Afghan force.

"We cleared 2 villages, captured 5 Taliban and constructed a school" is much easier to report than "Sergeant Jamaluddin finally started to earn the trust of his men, learned how to spot an ambush, or built a relationship with the local malik" — especially when the quality of Afghan leaders is uneven at best, and even the smallest Afghan-led operation can be a monumental task.