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    Grishk (redirect from Gereshk)
    (Pashto: ګرِشک, romanized: Grishk; Persian: گِرِشک, romanized: Gereshk), also spelled Gereshk, is the new name of Zamindawar which is named after the invasion...
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    May 1841, Aktur Khan led a force of 3,000 men to capture Gereshk. The British retook Gereshk at the beginning of June and then led punitive expeditions...
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    Camp Leatherneck Gereshk District in Afghanistan Original Camp Leatherneck sign at entrance Camp Leatherneck Shown within Afghanistan Coordinates 31°51′50″N...
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    the Georgian garrison from Kandahar and the surviving Georgians fled to Gereshk and waited. When the Safavid court heard of this, they sent Kaikhosro Khan...
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  • Grishk District (Pashto: ګرشک ولسوالۍ) (population 114,200), also called Nahri Saraj District (نهر سراج ولسوالۍ), is a district in Helmand Province in...
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    Supersangar at the British forward operating base, Price, Gereshk, Afghanistan (photograph taken in 2013 during the War in Afghanistan)...
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    along with several bodyguards were travelling through the desert near Gereshk, Helmand province on motorbikes when they were ambushed and killed by an...
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    of Golcar in Huddersfield were killed by separate IED's, Malgir, near Gereshk in Helmand Province, whilst on base security foot patrols. Both soldiers...
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    by Operation Silicon, where British led forces removed the Taliban from Gereshk and much of the surrounding countryside. The Royal Engineers then set up...
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    a battery of 9-pounder cannons (4.1 kg), advanced to Helmand, opposite Gereshk, to oppose Ayub Khan, but was there deserted by the levies of Shere Ali...
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    Irish Guards Brigade Advisory Group move on patrol with Afghan National Army soldier during Operation Omid Shash in Gereshk, Helmand province. (2011)...
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    soldier was killed in a firefight at a Taliban compound to the north east of Gereshk on June 6. Another NATO soldier was killed in the south of the country...
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    Base Budwan, or more simply, FOB Budwan, was a military base located near Gereshk, in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. It was occupied by International...
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    which they would begin operations along Highway 1 west of the city of Gereshk. The battalion headquarters and Company C were last to move, occupying...
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    relatively safe area known as "the triangle", centered around Lashkar Gah and Gereshk. However, the intensification of Taliban attacks led to a dramatic change...
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    (LRS) detachment. 74th LRS operated out of FOB Price near the town of Gereshk in the Helmand Province. LRS provided the 173rd Brigade command group with...
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    confrontation between the government and the tribesmen at Yakhchal, near Gereshk, which was eventually resolved when the government employed aircraft (bought...
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    companies, along with other supporting units, deployed to the dangerous Upper Gereshk Valley in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines were ordered to keep...
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    had been travelling in a convoy roughly 11 km east of Hyderabad in the Gereshk region of Helmand Province when an explosion hit his vehicle. Guardsman...
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    a road to connect Lashkargah and the northern, more developed city of Gereshk, Governor Mangal's efforts to restructure the city have left Route Trident...
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    Herat–Islam Qala Highway Herat–Mazar Highway Route Trident (Lashkar Gah to Gereshk) Route 606 (Afghanistan) There are over a dozen official border crossing...
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  • their first mission in Helmand Province at a forward operating base near Gereshk named FOB Armadillo. The film premièred in the Critics' Week section at...
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    of the battalion, relying on British and Danish support, operated near Gereshk in central Helmand province and took part in hundreds of engagements and...
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    International journal on hydropower & dams. Aqua-Media International. p. 99. Retrieved 1 April 2011. "Gereshk Power Plant". Google Earth. v t e v t e...
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  • 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016. "British forces expand influence in Upper Gereshk". MoD. Retrieved 28 February 2014. Jones 2013, p. 31. "UK hands over base...
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  • Parwan OAIX OAI Bagram Air Base 03/21: 3602 × 46 m, concrete 1484 Girishk (Gereshk) Helmand OAZI OAZ Camp Shorabak (Camp Bastion) 01/19: 3500 × 46 m, concrete/asphalt...
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  • 2008) was a Taliban leader in Afghanistan who was killed in combat in the Gereshk region of Helmand Province. In 2007, Mullah Matin became the governor of...
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    their deployment. 2/7 operated from Camp Bastion and bases in Sangin, Gereshk, Musa Qaleh, Now Zad, Delaram, Gulistan, Bakwa and Bala Baluk. Called "the...
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    Camp Shorabak کمپ شورابک Near Gereshk, Helmand Province in Afghanistan U.S. Marine Corps Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter at the camp in 2013...
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  • Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico OAZ OAZI Camp Bastion Air Base Girishk (Gereshk), Afghanistan -OB- OBA Oban Airport Oban, Queensland, Australia OBC HDOB...
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