Kunar
Proper noun
Meaning
Kunar
A province of Afghanistan.
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Examples
About 6,018 missiles have been fired on Kunar from Pakistan since the middle of March this year.
Bin Laden started addressing small gatherings of his comrades in Kunar, as well as in Paktia.
Besides Nangarhar province, it can also be heard in parts of neighboring Kunar province as well as in Pakistan's bordering tribal districts of Bajaur and Mohmand.
In 2012, he was killed in an air strike by the US military in Marawara district of Kunar, which killed the Bajaur commander, Dadullah.
Kunar is a hot-bed of Taliban-Al Qaeda elements and Hizb-e-Islami faction of former Afghan Prime Minster Hekmatyar and they are known to criss-cross the border.
In Kunar, the group has not yet established definitive territorial control, but it has actively recruited from members of militant groups there, including from the Afghan Taleban.