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Herat enjoys a gold rush
Herāt :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago
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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
A/H1N1 flu adds to woes to Kabul, anti-terror war
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 21 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
Did a US 'Hit' Create an Afghan Hero?
Herāt :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility American forces have finally managed to kill Ghulam Yahya Akbari, the self-styled scourge of Herat, a city he had once served as mayor. Thousands wept as Ghulam Yahya Akbari, rebel commander extraordinaire, was laid to rest beside the mosque that he had...
Tags: Ghulam Yahya Akbari, Heratis, Herat Province
US admits Afghan civilian deaths
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 9 months ago
Credibility An investigation into a missile strike carried out by US-led forces in Afghanistan earlier this week has found that 13 civilians were among 16 people killed, the US military has said. The military made the admission on Saturday, after originally saying...
Tags: W. Afghanistan, U.S, coalition forces, Herat, herat province, gozara district, air strike, Gozara, coalition operation, western afghanistan
British soldier killed in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 9 months ago
Credibility The soldier died after coming under fire in Helmand on Tuesday, according to the ministry. Meanwhile, Afghan soldiers killed nine Taliban insurgents in a gunfight in Helmand late Monday, an army general reported. "We have killed nine armed Taliban and...
Tags: US Afghanistan, Herat, Ghulam Yahya Akbari, U.S, herat province, gozara district, Gozara, western afghanistan, coalition force
Abducted Indian worker dies in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 9 months ago
Credibility An Indian worker kidnapped by unknown militants in Afghanistan last October has died in the captivity of his abductors, officials and his family said on Monday. A terse press statement from the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in Chennai said: "...the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Simon Paranthaman, Herat, Simon Paramanathan, Simon Paramananthan, herat province
Joint inquiry targets disputed Afghan death toll
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Further clouding the issue, compensation payments offered to the families of people accidentally killed by Western and Afghan troops sometimes spur false claims, military officials say. International Security Assistance Force -- not the separate U.S.-led...
Tags: karzai, Azizabad, joint investigating, Herat, investigating team, U.S, led coalition, Nimatullah Shahrani, U.N., herat province
Outbreak of rare disease kills two
Herāt :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Afghanistan, according to the World Health Organisation�s (WHO) website. Doctors in Herat warned that the disease, which is transmitted from animals to humans through ticks, will spread to other parts of the country unless preventative steps are taken...
Tags: Herat Province
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