Operation Red Wing

Kunar is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. Its capital is Asadabad. It is one of the four... "N2KL" provinces . N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan for the rugged and very violent region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border opposite Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Kunar province is located in the northeast of Afghanistan. It borders with Nangarhar Province to the south, Nuristan Province to the north, Laghman Province to the west and has a border with Pakistan in the east. The province covers an area of 4339 km. Nearly nine tenths of the province is mountainous or semi mountainous terrain while one eighth of the area is made up of relatively flat land. The primary geographic features of the province are the lower Hindu Kush mountains which form, the Kunar Valley, and the Kunar River which flows south along the north-south axis of the valley is a primary draining conduit for the Hindu Kush basin.
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The War in Afghanistan , a new phase of the War in Afghanistan , began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the... United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom. The primary driver of the invasion was the September 11 attacks on the United States, with the stated goal of dismantling the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base. The United States also said that it would remove the Taliban regime from power and create a viable democratic state. A decade into the war, the U.S. continues to battle a widespread Taliban insurgency, and the war has expanded into the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan. The preludes to the war were the assassination of anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud on 9 September 2001, and the 11 September attacks on the United States, in which nearly 3000 civilians died in New York City, Arlington, Virginia, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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