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Camp Qargha

military facility in Afghanistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5027506 ↗
Source-derived summary

Camp Qargha was an Afghan National Army facility which was home to its Officer Academy. The Afghan Army was supported by mentors from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Denmark. The facility was located in Kabul, about six miles (9.6 km) from the Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA). Camp Qargha was later used to treat drug addicts. In 2026 it would become the central topic of an airstrike.

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The public source identifies “Camp Qargha” as military facility in Afghanistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Camp, Qargha and military.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Camp, Qargha and military providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5027506. Authority coordinates are 34.525, 69.178. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Camp Qargha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.