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US pours millions into anti-Taliban militias in Afghanistan
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
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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 | 4 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 | 6 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 | 7 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 | 11 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
Roadside bomb kills 12 in Afghanistan's west
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
Credibility HEART: A roadside bomb attack claimed by the Taliban killed at least 12 people in a key commercial city in western Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, amid worsening security before a presidential poll this month. The remote-controlled bomb may have...
Tags: afghanistan, bomb, Afghanistan Kills, west Afghanistan, western afghanistan, Herat, roadside bomb, police chief, bomb attack, rush hour
Bomb blast kills 12, mostly Afghan civilians - The Associated Press
Bomb blast kills 12, mostly Afghan civiliansThe Associated PressKABUL ? A remote-controlled bomb targeting a police convoy killed 12 people Monday in western Afghanistan, a day after three American soldiers died in a complex militant ambush in the...
Tags: bomb, Afghanistan, American soldiers, Herat
Bomb blast hits west Afghan city
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 3 months ago
Credibility One official told the Associated Press news agency the attack targeted a police convoy, killing 10 people and injuring 20, including civilians. Insurgent attacks on security forces have mounted in the run-up to the presidential election on 20 August.
Tags: Russian, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Afghanistan, Taliban, NATO, prime minister, nato chief, Herat, secretary general, presidential elections
Afghan farmers ditch opium for saffron
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility The farmer from Gulmir, from a village in Pashtun Zarghon district of Herat province, has found monetary and spiritual benefits in switching to saffron. "I always felt sinful when I was growing poppies," he said. "The money brought me no joy, and did...
Tags: Herat
Afghanistan declares western province poppy-free
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 months ago
Credibility Deputy to Afghanistan's Interior Ministry General Mohammad Daud has announced western Herat province as poppy-free region, a local newspaper reports Monday. "During a visit to Herat province very recently, Mohammad Daud said the people of Herat had refused...
Tags: Herat, Afghanistan
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