After he had made peace with the Karaman Emirate in Anatolia in August 1444, he resigned the throne to his twelve year-old son Mehmed II.

In January, 2011, several newspapers and magazines, including the UK's Sunday Times and Arabian Business, reported that scientists backed by the government of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, had created over 50 artificial rainstorms between July and August 2010 near Al Ain, a city which lies close to the country's border with Oman and is the second-largest city in the Abu Dhabi Emirate.

* August 27-Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan soldiers entered Iran and seized a border kiosk.

* Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan soldiers returned to Iran a border kiosk that they had seized on August 27.

* August 30-Iran complained to the United Nations that Afghanistan's ruling Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan had raised border tensions by deploying soldiers seizing a kiosk on August 27.

* August 31-In Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan detained non-Afghan staff of the International Assistance Mission in Herat and Jalalabad.

By August 1920 the Turkestan Bolsheviks advocated the liquidation of the Bukhara Emirate as a centre for counter-revolutionary forces.

Map of the situation in Afghanistan in August 2001 until October 2001

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai ( 6 August 194727 September 1996 ), better known mononymously as Najibullah or Najib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the Mujahideen took over Kabul.

On 1 August 2010 the Dutch military formally declared its withdrawal from its four-year mission in Afghanistan ; most soldiers are expected to be back in the Netherlands by September, excepting those working on the reset, redistribution and repatriation of materiel and supplies.

In August 2001, Mahmood and one of his colleagues at Mahmood's Ummah Tameer-e-Nau charity met with Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan.

In mid-2005 construction began on a bridge across the Panj River to Afghanistan which was funded by the United States and opened in August 2007, and plans called for construction of several other bridges ultimately connecting Tajikistan to warm-water ports to the south.

* August 19 – Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Human Rights Watch sent written requests in April and August 2007 for updated information regarding possible deployment of 17-year-old US troops to Iraq or Afghanistan, but as of October 2007 had not

Coats made headlines in August 1998, when he publicly questioned the timing of President Bill Clinton ’ s attack on terrorist bases in Afghanistan and Sudan, suggesting it might be linked to the Lewinsky scandal: " While there is clearly much more we need to learn about this attack and why it was ordered today, given the president ’ s personal difficulties this week, it is legitimate to question the timing of this action.

The highest surface wind speed ever officially recorded in Asia was recorded in Afghanistan on 14 August 2008: 328 km / h ( 204 mph ; 91 m / s ) in Ab-Paran, Ghowr.

* Order of the Enlightenment ( Afghanistan, August 1969 )

The SASR was re-deployed to Afghanistan in August or September 2005.

# REDIRECT 2002 in Afghanistan # August

# REDIRECT 2002 in Afghanistan # August

A few months earlier, similar criticism was levelled during Operation Infinite Reach, wherein missile strikes were ordered against suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan, on August 20.

In August 2007, Pakistani politician and the leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Fazal-ur-Rehman, urged Afghanistan to recognise the Durand Line.

A new play area located within the park will be dedicated to Bedworth born Sergeant Simon ' VAL ' Valentine a local Soldier of 2nd Btn Royal Regiment of Fusiliers who lost his life in August 2009 while serving his country in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

* Example: US President Bill Clinton's cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 has been suggested as a means to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky affair.

" Edward S. Herman, writing in Z Magazine, commented that this renewed interest by the New York Times in the massacre, after a 7-year silence on the matter, was rather late in coming and coincided with Dostum's restoration to a position of power in Afghanistan prior to the August 2009 elections, in a move that the U. S. administration disapproved of.

* Special Report: The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan, by Babak Dehghanpiseh, John Barry and Roy Gutman, Newsweek, August 26, 2002

Anwar ul-Haq Ahady ( August 12, 1951 -) is a prominent academic and politician in Afghanistan, who served as the nation's Finance Minister from December 2004 to February 5, 2009.

On 21 August 2001, his ship rescued 438 refugees, mainly from then Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, from a drifting boat about 75 nautical miles ( 139 km ) north of Christmas Island.

His second tour of joint duty with the Joint Special Operations Command included operations in Somalia ; Commander, 2d Brigade, 101st Airborne Division ( Air Assault ); Assistant Division Commander for Operations, 82d Airborne Division ; Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg ; Chief of Office of Military Cooperations, Cairo, Egypt ; Commander, 82d Airborne Division from August 2000 until October 2002 ; Commander, Coalition Task Force 82, in Afghanistan from 1 September 2002 until 1 May 2003 ; and then Commander, Combined / Joint Task Force-180, Bagram, Afghanistan, until October 2003 ; Commander, Multi-National Corps Iraq in Baghdad from January 2005 until January 2006.

On the 25 August 2004, it was announced by Secretary of State for Defence Geoff Hoon that 6 RAF Harrier GR7 from No. 3 Squadron would be deployed to Afghanistan.

Allies within the capital opened the gates for him on August 24, and for three days his troops sacked the city.

Andrew and his troops embarked on 23 August 1217 in Spalato ( Split ).

A United States postage stamp of 1945 shows the Arc de Triomphe in the background as victorious American troops march down the Champs-Élysées and U. S. airplanes fly overhead on 29 August 1944.

On 7 August, therefore, the first of Baden's 15, 000 Imperial troops ( the remainder following two days later ) left Marlborough's main force to besiege the heavily defended city of Ingolstadt, farther down the Danube.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

It was not until the latter part of August that troops were brought by land into the neighbourhood of Antony's camp on the north side of the strait.

López's fourth expedition landed in Pinar del Río province with around 400 men in August 1851 ; the invaders were defeated by Spanish troops and López was executed.

Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ), led by the warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, attacked in August 1998, backed by Rwandan and Ugandan troops.

By August 1964, the mercenaries, with the assistance of other ANC troops, were making headway against the Simba rebellion.

He invited Elizabeth to inspect her troops at Tilbury in Essex on 8 August.

Albert took a leading part in the operations which preceded the battle of Sedan, the 4th army being the pivot on which the whole army wheeled round in pursuit of Mac-Mahon ; and the actions of Buzancy and Beaumont on 29 and 30 August 1870 were fought under his direction ; in the Battle of Sedan itself ( 1 September 1870 ), with the troops under his orders, Albert carried out the envelopment of the French on the east and north.

On 15 August 1642, with eight men, his mother and maids, he held out against Princes Rupert and Maurice with 18 troops of horses and dragoons.

On the Spanish front the French troops were defeated at Vitoria ( June 1813 ) and then at the Battle of the Pyrenees ( July – August 1813 ).

Britain entered the war on 4 August, and started sending in troops on 7 August.

Although the First Battle of Independence in August 1862 resulted in a Confederate victory, the Southerners were unable to follow up their win in any significant fashion, as the City of Kansas was occupied by Union troops and proved too heavily fortified for them to assault.

Russia withdrew its troops by 31 August 1994, but maintained several hundred technical specialists to staff an OSCE-monitored phased-array ABM radar station at Skrunda until 31 August 1998.

In August 1990, the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), an organisation of West African states, created a military intervention force called Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) of 4, 000 troops, to restore order.

These troops started to arrive in Liberia probably as of 15 August.

A ECOWAS-ECOMIL force of 1000 Nigerian troops was airlifted into Liberia on August 15, to halt the occupation of Monrovia by rebel forces.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.

On August 6, 2008, Mauritania's presidential spokesman Abdoulaye Mamadouba said President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf and the interior minister, were arrested by renegade Senior Mauritanian army officers, unknown troops and a group of generals, and were held under house arrest at the presidential palace in Nouakchott.