Tarin

Joshua R. Townsend, 30, of Solvang, Calif., died Jan. 16 in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained in a non-combat related incident.

When There’s Nothing On The Horizon You’ve Got Nothing Left To Prove | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Defuniak Springs, Fla., died May 8 in Tarin Kwot, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked by enemy forces during combat patrol operations.

Gulf War II 2007

Master Sgt. Emigdio E. Elizarraras, 37, of Pico Rivera, Calif., died in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan on Feb. 28, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during a reconnaissance mission.

KIA KIA/BNR 2006

Clarksville, Tenn., died Aug. 11 in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan, while he was conducting training operations at Forward Operating Base Ripley.

Gulf War II 2005

Push was the wizzo on an early sortie when Spartan, the British AWACS, assigned his and another F-15, flying wing, a target in Tarin Kowt, a city north of Kandahar.

The Kabul-ki Dance 2002

Push was the wizzo on an early sortie when Spartan, the British AWACS, assigned his and another F-15, flying wing, a target in Tarin Kowt, a city north of Kandahar.

The Kabul-ki Dance 2002

Following the news of the debacle at Tarin Kowt, Mullah Omar finally abandoned Kandahar, the city he had controlled absolutely for the past seven years.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

One morning Daud and his aides drove out to a scrubby, desert flatland area several miles out of Tarin Kowt, where they met up with what looked like a large traveling circus, albeit a heavily armed one.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

But the importance of the Tarin Kowt battle was not well understood at the time because the vast majority of the international media covering the war were concentrated in the north of the country and focusing on the fall of Kabul five days earlier.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

In Uruzgan province, two policemen were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province, according to the governor's office.

Karzai tries to calm fears after recent violence 2011