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Trudy Rubin: Pennsylvania man brings clean water to Afghan villages
Herāt :: Afghanistan | about 13 hours ago
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As the United States prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan and struggles to find ways to funnel aid money more effectively to Afghans, it should take note of the efforts of a Pennsylvania businessman. Aldo Magazzeni, of Perkiomenville, Pa., builds...
Tags: Mr. Magazzeni, Herat, bringing clean, clean water, Pennsylvania State University, afghans village, Mr. Numatullah, Afghanistan, Ms. Pakzad, Herāt
Afghan alarm at president's speech
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility President Obama's speech evoked alarm and questions from Afghanistan about America's proposed pullout from that war-torn country, officials say. The president announced he would begin withdrawing combat troops in 18-months in a move, some speculate, that...
Tags: afghani, troops, west, war, cia, Afghanistan, Herāt, Politics, War Conflict, Taliban, Human rights abuses, Mazari Sharif, Barack Obama, Kabul, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Cities along the Silk Road, Indian embassy bombing in Kabul, Human rights in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, War in Afghanistan, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Herat enjoys a gold rush
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
Credibility Mohammad is a smuggler, not an unusual trade for someone living in Herat, just 120 kilometers from the border with Iran. But Mohammad is not dealing in drugs or weapons, the typical contraband that flows back and forth across the border...He mines it...
Tags: Afghanistan, Herāt, Hospitality Recreation, Herat, Herat Province, Cities along the Silk Road
Kabul has never ruled Afghanistan,
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
Credibility Is a centralised presidential republic really the best form of government for Afghanistan, asks Carlo Ungaro, after 16 years in the country? More regional autonomy would allow respected local chiefs (as opposed to war lords) to exercise their authority...
Tags: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Carlo Ungaro, Al Qaida, NATO, Kabul, Afghanistan, Herāt, Politics, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Islamism, War in Afghanistan, Islamic terrorism, War Conflict
US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 10 days ago
Credibility Reza Shirmohammadi/AFP/Getty Images US special forces are supporting anti- Taliban militias in at least 14 areas of Afghanistan as part of a secretive programme that experts warn could fuel long-term instability in the country. The Community Defence...
Tags: special force, Afghanistan, Arif Noorzai, General McChrystal, taliban militia, Stanley McChrystal, Herāt, Taliban, Afghan National Army, Haji Bashar, Politics, Military of Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, War Conflict
TRUDY RUBIN: Afghan women fear the return of the Taliban
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 13 days ago
Credibility I came to this city of clean, tree-lined streets near the Iranian border to write about Afghan women. The subjugation of women under the Taliban, who forbade them to work, attend school or leave home without a male relative, once galvanized Americans'...
Tags: Ms. Pakzad, Afghanistan, Taliban, afghans women, U.S. State Department, Herāt, War in Afghanistan, Islamism, Islamic terrorism, Social Issues
INTERVIEW - Afghan minister launches corruption crackdown
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 16 days ago
Credibility HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - By clamping down on bribery, firing corrupt employees and privatising bloated state enterprises, Afghan Commerce Minister Wahidullah Shahrani hopes to slowly lift the cloud of corruption from Afghanistan. Graft is endemic...
Tags: Wahidullah Shahrani, Afghanistan, Herāt, Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Pashtun people, Iranian Plateau, Politics
Swine flu panic grips Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 16 days ago
Credibility Idris, just seven years old, is too small for the large green surgical mask covering his mouth and nose. The paper covers most of his face, and makes him feel as if he is suffocating. He and his little sister, Madina, similarly masked, are on their way...
Tags: swine flu, Herat, Afghanistan, Kabul, Swine influenza, flu pandemic, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Pandemics, Animal virology, Influenza
A/H1N1 flu adds to woes to Kabul, anti-terror war
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 20 days ago
Credibility Two weeks after Afghanistan announced its first death from the A/H1N1 flu, the country has seen the epidemic's death toll rising sharply, with a shadow cast on the already difficult anti-terror war. Afghan Ministry for Public Health said 11 Afghans, including...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Afghan National Army, Mohammad Amin Fatemi, Taliban, Taliban insurgency, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Herat Province, Herat, Hamid Karzai, Cities along the Silk Road, Mazari Sharif
Taliban grow stronger in 'safe' Afghan north, west
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 2 months ago
Credibility Seventeen-year-old Nowruz was celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid with his father, mother and 11-year-old sister when 50 Taliban gunmen attacked their home with rockets and gunfire and killed him. The Taliban's target on Tuesday night was Nowruz's...
Tags: Taliban, Afghanistan, Herāt
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