Khōst (Pashto: خوست) is the capital of Khost Province in Afghanistan. It is the largest city in the southeastern part of the country, and also the largest in the region of Loya Paktia. To the south and east of Khost lie Waziristan and Kurram in Pakistan. Khost is the home of Shaikh Zayed University. The Khost Airport is located in the eastern area of the city.
^"The State of Afghan Cities report2015". Archived from the original on 2015-10-31.
^"Khost", The National Area-Based Development Program (NABDP), Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
Khōst (Pashto: خوست) is the capital of Khost Province in Afghanistan. It is the largest city in the southeastern part of the country, and also the largest...
Khost (Pashto/Dari: خوست) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan located in the southeastern part of the country. Khost consists of thirteen districts...
Soviet–Afghan War in the 1980s and the subsequent Afghan civil war, the town of Khost was besieged for more than eleven years. Its airstrip's 3 km runway served...
The Khost Protection Force (KPF), formally known as the 25th Division by the (Afghan) Ministry of Defence was an Afghan paramilitary group that has been...
The Great Mosque of Khost (Pashto: د خوست لوی جماعت) or simply the Khost Mosque is the largest mosque in the city of Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan...
January 1988. The operation was launched to open the road from Gardez to Khost that had been blocked by Mujahideen forces and a local tribe for several...
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career when a rebellion erupted in Khost led by Jehandad Khan, a rival claimant to the Afghan throne, known as the Khost rebellion. This rebellion ended...
began Operation Magistral to open the road from Gardez to Khost near the Pakistani border. Khost had been cut off for months by mujahideen led by Jalaluddin...
States Navy ships in the Arabian Sea struck Bin Laden's training camps near Khost in Afghanistan, missing him by a few hours. In 1999 the CIA, together with...
major city under Afghan government control. Soon afterward, Maidan Shar, Khost, Bamyan, Mahmud-i-Raqi, Charikar and Parun also fell. Afghan commandos managed...
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