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The US has agreed to give millions of dollars in development aid to provinces in Afghanistan that have eliminated or reduced the production of opium poppies, the raw ingredient in making heroin.The poppy crop in Afghanistan,...
Trend News Agency Afghan troops kill 5 Taliban fighters Trend News Agency Five Taliban fighters were killed and four others sustained injuries as troops raided their hideouts in Faryab province northwest of Afghanistan, Tolo...
WFP winter pre-positioning of nearly 33,000 mt of food continues. Thus far 27,400 mt (83 percent) of the total planned food has been dispatched to 18 provinces. The pre-positioning is for WFP normal activities to ensure a...
The Christian Science Monitor - The insurgents' tactics are familiar. Night letters warn village elders to cooperate or face death. Religious "taxes" must be paid, and fiery sermons in mosques attack the Karzai government and...
The Taliban's growing presence in northern Afghanistan, near the U.S. and NATO supply routes from the north, poses new challenges for the international forces, which until now have had a contingent of 520 Swedish and Finnish...
A South Korean construction firm involved in the reconstruction of Afghanistan recently sustained three rounds of armed attacks from the war-torn country's insurgents believed to be Taliban forces, Seoul's foreign ministry said...
MAIMANA, Afghanistan, Nov 06, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The new Bibi Fatima Zahra School for Orphans was dedicated by Mr. Ehsan Bayat, Bayat Foundation Chairman, on Friday, 30 Oct, 2009. The Faryab Provincial...
The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange for accepting the presence of foreign troops , Afghan government sources confirmed. "US negotiators had offered the...
Hamid Karzai was declared the winner by default Monday in Afghanistan's fraud-marred presidential election. PAULA BRONSTEIN / GETTY IMAGES KABUL — Hamid Karzai was declared the winner by default Monday in Afghanistan's...
This province, home to 1 million people, is difficult for Western reporters to reach by car due to the distance from Kabul and the risks posed by insurgents or gangs on one stretch of road. So I was glad to get an invitation to...
