Nuristan

Instead of states threatening each other directly with armies, the region is fracturing from within.

A prime example is the recent incident in Afghanistan's Nuristan province, where twenty-eight fighters were killed.

And Afghan authorities claim those fighters crossed over from Pakistan, while Islamabad, of course, denies the ties.

It's causing a massive spike in border tension.

The growing impact of climate change on the everyday lives of Afghans.

And as the search for the missing continues beneath the mud, more intense rainfall, combined with years of deforestation, has left mountainous regions like Nuristan increasingly exposed to deadly floods and landslides.

So Afghanistan is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change.

Droughts, floods, rising temperatures are damaging crops, livestock, water supplies around the country.

Two days later, an exchange of fire with militants killed four soldiers and two officers in the adjacent Hangu District.

On September 27, Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said its forces had killed 28 fighters and wounded 32 in the eastern province of Nuristan after a group that it said included Islamic State militants crossed from Pakistan.

The ministry alleged that Pakistani militias had supported the fighters and that most of them were former Afghan security personnel.

Pakistan's information ministry rejected the allegations, describing them from its posts as frivolous, baseless, and devoid of any truth.

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The Afghan Taliban claimed to kill 28 fighters and wounded 32 in the eastern province of Nuristan after a group crossed from Pakistan.

The Taliban also claimed that Pakistani militias are supporting opposition fighters and that most of them were former Afghan government security personnel.

Pakistan's foreign ministry denies the accusation.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front and the Taliban clashed in the Qamdish district of Nuristan.

According to the AFF, the Taliban targeted their positions with drones.

The group claimed that it captured several checkpoints in a counterattack as Taliban forces retreated.

The AFF claims that it killed 37 Taliban fighters and wounded 24 others in clashes in the Qamdish district of Nuristan and the Nari district of Kunar.

and just sitting there, and they're talking among themselves, and I can't hear a thing, or I can't understand a thing.

And I had earlier, and I forgot to say this, when they first grabbed me, I said, you know, that I was trying, and my guide said, well, he is Narastani, And Nuristan is in the far northeast corner of Afghanistan.

It's close to China.

And it is where they say Alexander the Great was there.

Because it's not just second battalion.

um it's it's first battalion and quite frankly it's it's 191 as well so at some point i want to get some 191 cab guys on here that that tried to race up north to nuristan but today it's about you and it's about first battalion uh what you did there and and your story as you continued on in the military so props to you guys man i know we had a hard fight but so did you guys

i appreciate that i do it's um and i think a lot of um a lot of first battalion guys who had it a lot harder than I did.

Again, I was, you know, I was the XO for SECO and then I was the XO for the last few months of the deployment for ECO.

And he had a suspicion that he'd have to find something else to do.

And I sent a telegram to a friend of mine in the Foreign Office who was in Rio de Janeiro and said, can you travel Nuristan in June, Eric? And he sent me a cable from the British Embassy saying, of course, you.

And this was the moment when we started to put our ridiculous expedition together.

It might have been ridiculous, and the book that came out of that expedition is so funny, but you were kind of serious about it.

We pay them a little bit of money to do some of the things they do.

The only people that earn money from our foundation are our teachers and some of the volunteers who – some of the helpers who – have volunteered to carry humanitarian aid up into mountains in Nuristan and so forth and distribute aid in different places.

We help families that, I'll tell you about a little girl, two little girls.

There was Jan. Jan is the heart and soul of our work, I'll tell you what.