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Afghan Luke is a 2011 Canadian war drama film directed by Mike Clattenburg. [1] The central character, Luke Benning (), is a journalist investigating the possible mutilation (by Canadian snipers) of corpses in Afghanistan, a country that appears increasingly incomprehensible and surreal as Luke undergoes a series of bizarre adventures.
A total of 560 ISAF troops were killed in Afghanistan in 2011, the second highest annual total since the war began in 2001. Four-hundred seventeen were from the US and 45 from the UK. [72] The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan documented 3,021 civilian deaths in 2011 compared with 2,790 in 2010 and 2,412 in 2009. Most deaths were caused by ...
It was also the setting for the documentary film Patrol Base Jaker. Units. C Company, 1 RIFLES; 1st Battalion 5th Marines; 11th Marine Regiment Counterbattery RADAR Target Acquisition Platoon LCMR (CBR TAP LCMR) (2009) The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2009) 137 Bty, 40th Regiment Royal Artillery (The Lowland Gunners)
Experimental/Arthouse short film: 2017: Black Kite: Leena Alam, Haji Gul Aser| A Letter to the President: Leena Alam, Mamnoon Maqsoodi| Faceless: Ali Akbar Kamal: Humayoon Shams Khan, Rahmatullah Khostai, Farahnaz Nawab: Action: First Afghan superhero film: 2019: Jirga: Benjamin Gilmour: Amir Shah Talash, Sam Smith, Sher Alam Miskeen Ustad ...
Bomb Patrol Afghanistan (U.S. G4 TV series, 17 episodes, 2011–2012) Endgame Afghanistan (British ITV Tonight TV episode, 17-02-2011) Hooligans At War (documentary, 2011) Norway At War: Mission Afghanistan (TV series, 6 episodes 2011) War for Peace (Swedish TV series, 6 episodes, 2011) Our War: 10 Years in Afghanistan (BBC TV series, 6 ...
Map of Afghanistan with Helmand highlighted. The 2011 Helmand Province killing was the manslaughter of a wounded Taliban insurgent by Alexander Blackman, which occurred on 15 September 2011. [1] [2] Three Royal Marines, known during their trial as Marines A, B, and C, were anonymously tried by court martial.
On 6 August 2011, a U.S. CH-47D Chinook military helicopter operating with the call sign Extortion 17 (pronounced "one-seven") was shot down while transporting a Quick Reaction Force attempting to reinforce a Joint Special Operations Command unit of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Tangi Valley in Maidan Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film [nb 1] since 2002, following the fall of the country's previous Taliban government. . The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.