afghanistan

Explores stories from a host of Afghan women living today in an Afghanistan that has largely been freed of the Taliban, which means that Afghan women today have much more freedom to go to school, find employment, and serve in government. Discusses personal stories of women like Dr. Sakena Yacoobi, who ran an underground school for girls during the Taliban's reign; Freshta Hazeq, a business owner who faces death threats against her and her children; and Naheed Farid, who won election to Parliament at age twenty-seven in spite of fierce opposition.

"Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor"--Amazon.

When the author, RAF Police Flight Sergeant Will Barrow, first met Buster, an English springer spaniel, he couldn't have foreseen the impact the animal would eventually have on his life. But Buster was more than a dog, he was literally a lifesaving, bomb-sniffing, best friend who would eventually win the prestigious Crufts Friends for Life Award for his honorable service in five tours of duty in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In this memoir, Barrow recounts the love and respect one man can have for a dog.

Chronicles the experiences of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 as they carry out a dangerous mission to wrest Taliban power from the isolated Taliban stronghold of Bala Murghab in Afghanistan.

A biography of Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroic actions battling Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. Describes Murphy's life on New York's Long Island and how he developed into a man who would sacrifice his life for his comrades. Discusses the effect of his death in 2005 on his tight-knit family as they learned more about Operation Red Wings in which he lost his life.

Raptor's communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe, is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an "other than honorable" discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives. Afghan pilot Fekiria Haidary is devastated when a systems glitch on her aircraft forces a weapons launch on a safe target. And when the deadly bombing separates Hawk from the team, he must make an impossible choice: save his brothers-in-arms, or save the woman and children depending on him to survive a brutal snowstorm.

Captain Dean Watters keeps his mission and his team in the forefront of his laser-like focus. So when these two things are threatened by hackers, Dean's Special Forces training kicks into high gear. Failing to stop the hackers from stealing national security secrets from the military's secure computers and networks isn't an option. Zahrah Zarrick is a missionary teacher to Afghan children in Mazar-e Sharif. And a target. When Zahrah is captured because of her expertise in quantum cryptology, endangering the US national security, Dean is forced to crack the lockbox around his heart--a move that might come at the highest cost.

"Presents the story of First Lieutenant Ashley White and a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battle field in Afghanistan"--OCLC.

Two teens from different ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan must fight their culture, tradition, families, and the Taliban to stay together as they and another village boy relate the story of their forbidden love.