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insurgency

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insurgency noun agitators, insurrection, rebellion, uprising
Associated concepts: counter insurgency strategy, global innurgency, quelling insurgency
See also: defiance, disloyalty, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt


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The debate tends to pit advocates of a counter-insurgency strategy -- a manpower-intensive approach with troops securing towns and villages -- against supporters of a more narrow "counter-terrorism" mission designed to target Al-Qaeda leaders without attempting to take on the wider Afghan insurgency.
He blamed the attack on "enemies of Afghanistan", a term often used to refer to Taliban militants who are waging an insurgency now at record levels since they were ousted from government by the 2001 US-led invasion.
10 (ANI): In a bid to disrupt the flow of drug money that is aiding Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has reportedly put 50 alleged drug traffickers on a hit list for elimination.
 
 
 
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