Myanmar may repeat the history of Afghanistan, where opium production was put to a complete stop by the Taliban only to explode again after the fall of the regime.
Since August, he has been studying the history of Afghanistan as well as the military operations since the war began in 2001, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
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Given the past history of intense rivalries in Afghanistan, it is a big question, of course, whether even a Loya Jirga could find a consensus.
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Clinton noted Iran's history of cooperating with the United States on Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion in 2001.
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Administration officials are thinking through the lessons of Afghanistan and other recent history.
The Collection is of great significance for the study of the history and culture of the peoples of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the Arab world, and of the political, diplomatic and cultural relations between them.
Given the difficulties in Iraq and Afghanistan, American officers are relearning the history of their own interventions in Latin America and, more important, the lessons of British imperial policing.
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Afghanistan is in a critical stage of its history struggling to build strong institutions and taking on the responsibilities needed to build a secure nation.
Afghanistan has been hostile to Pakistan for much of its history: opposing, alone, Pakistan's membership of the UN, refusing even now to recognise Pakistan's external borders.
Afghanistan needs to see the value of learning its own cultural history as too often the country's story is co-opted by the lens of another.
It's hard to talk about Afghanistan's history without explaining why her friend's daddy and a huge portion of the U.S. military are there.
Situated on a plateau in the central region of Afghanistan, Ghazni has a population of about 140, 000 people and a long history of military invasions.
On Afghanistan, the nation has learned a lot over the past couple days about Sergeant Bales, the suspect in the mass shooting in Afghanistan, and it's raised questions about his personal history and about the strains of war, multiple tours of duty.
The former commanding general of U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan equated the situation in Syria today with one of the most deadly nuclear accidents in history.
It should have taken no great literacy in the theories and the history of "state-building" to foresee the favorable endowments of Iraq and the built-in disadvantages of Afghanistan.
As members of the most successful alliance in human history, our commitment to our common defense is also a pillar of global security, from completing our mission in Afghanistan to preventing terrorist attacks to achieving our vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
The lack of studying of recent history made it difficult for pupils to understand current affairs and in particular the military action taking place in Afghanistan, the historian had said.
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