To show its gratitude for post-war assistance, the city sent Albany 50,000 tulip bulbs in 1948; this act led to the establishment of the annual Tulip Festival.
But the head of a leading war victims assistance group in the region, Issa Koma, confirmed that the town was under rebel control.
Jalaluddin Haqqani was one of ten mujahideen commanders who, during the anti-Soviet war, received assistance directly from the C.I.A. rather than via Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or I.S.I.
Though inspired by the same objective — containing the violence of war — humanitarian assistance is not necessarily compatible with punishing war criminals or, for that matter, the armed protection of civilians.
The report does not include veterans' benefits, interest on loans used to finance the war, and assistance to allies.
On the other hand, I don't understand what the objective is behind the Merida Initiative [a U.S. drug war military assistance plan launched in 2007].
In the late 1970's, the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan took power during the Afghan civil war and sought assistance from the Soviet Union to help suppress resistance from mujahideen insurgency.
Mao Zedong received the news with dismay, but he knew that his army could not continue the war without Soviet assistance.
Bangladesh has accused the Pakistani army of killing three million people and raping an estimated 200,000 women during the war, with the assistance of local groups such as the he Razakars.
Once the emergency of war eased, foreign assistance for these clinics was cut -- and now what remains of these clinics are at the heart of an Ebola outbreak.
But first Britain had to defeat her continental rivals, which she did in part during the French and Indian War, with American assistance.
