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Hundreds of Taliban fighters overran Kunduz, the fifth-largest city in Afghanistan, Monday, in a major blow to the Obama administration and its puppet government in Kabul, headed by President Ashraf Ghani. (wsws.org)
US warplanes carried out several airstrikes against the city Tuesday, according to military spokesmen in Kabul, but Ghani said there would be no full-scale air attack on the city of 300,000 people because of the likelihood of large-scale civilian casualties. (wsws.org)
It occupies a key crossroads position astride east-west routes from China through Afghanistan to Uzbekistan, and north-south routes from Kabul to Tajikistan. (wsws.org)
There were recriminations between Kunduz officials and the central government in Kabul over how easily the city was captured Monday, with one Afghan senator demanding the resignation of the government. (wsws.org)
Originally from Kabul, Afghanistan, the Mahmood family was forced to leave their home country in the mid-1990s when the Taliban took over. (lansingcitypulse.com)
If it isn't kickstarted soon, Kabul city could be left uninhabitable. (thediplomat.com)
Kabul New City (KNC) was intended to be home for 3 million by 2040, one and a half times larger than the existing Afghan capital. (thediplomat.com)
Most importantly, the new city was planned to mitigate the urban challenges and problems of the existing Kabul city. (thediplomat.com)
On the other hand, the existing city of Kabul is struggling with a shortage of drinking water, insufficient basic infrastructure, pollution of all kinds, a housing crisis, and other challenges that are getting worse every day. (thediplomat.com)
In 2006, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) conducted a study in response to a request from the government of Afghanistan in which they identified and studied seven broad areas around Kabul city and recommended Dehsabz district, toward the northeast of the existing city, as "the only area which has the potential for a larger urban development. (thediplomat.com)
KNC is located in Dehsabz and Barikab districts toward the northeast of the existing Kabul city, covering 722 square kilometers (sq km) of urban area and 440 sq km of developable land in Kabul and Parwan provinces. (thediplomat.com)
KABUL, (ANI) - An ancient Buddhist city near Kabul is in danger of disappearing forever, according to media reports, which hint that the city - one of the world's largest copper deposits, is being swallowed up by China. (indiawest.com)
When we spoke with Ambassador Cunningham from the embassy in Kabul, we asked what the attacks said about security in Afghanistan. (kcur.org)
India said it sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that state media reported killed 1,000 people. (tricitynews.com)
Since the departure of United States-led forces from Afghanistan in August, ISIS-K has waged a terrorist campaign in Kabul and guerilla warfare against Taliban forces in most provinces bordering Pakistan," South China Morning Post explained. (telesurenglish.net)
Kabul and Washington signed such an agreement late last week, with the United States anointing Afghanistan as a "major ally" outside of the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). (ipsnews.net)
V expressed her heartbreak and rage at the closing of the V-Day supported City of Knowledge, which was successfully educating thousands of women in Kabul for 10 years. (onebillionrising.org)
There were about 650 US troops in Afghanistan in early August 2021, tasked with protecting Hamid Karzai International Airport and the US embassy in Kabul. (wikipedia.org)
NATO's Resolute Support Mission concluded on 12 July 2021 while US intelligence assessments estimated as late as July that Kabul would fall within months or weeks following withdrawal of all American forces from Afghanistan, though the security situation deteriorated rapidly. (wikipedia.org)
On 12 August 2021, following continued Taliban victories across Afghanistan, the Biden administration announced that 3,000 US troops would be deployed to Kabul Airport to evacuate embassy personnel, US nationals and Special Immigrant Visa applicants. (wikipedia.org)
On November 2, 1982, a truck explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing an unknown number of people, including Soviet soldiers traveling to Kabul and Afghan civilians. (history.com)
A long army convoy was traveling from Russia to Kabul through the border city of Hairotum. (history.com)
Alakbarov said most of the decrees came from the Shura, or leadership council, in the southern city of Kandahar - the birthplace of the Taliban - and if a decree was signed by a minister in the capital Kabul it referenced the Kandahar Shura. (yahoo.com)
Afghans line up to receive food aid donated by the Chinese government in Kabul, Afghanistan, 17 August 2022. (irishtimes.com)
The airport had seen chaotic and deadly scenes since the Taliban blitzed across Afghanistan and took Kabul on August 15. (gulfnews.com)
FILE - Afghanistan's security forces take their position during a clash by Taliban fighters in the highway between Balkh province to Kunduz city, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 1, 2015. (abc4.com)
After donning his gold medal, Snyder reflected on recent events in Afghanistan, where 13 service members were killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport Thursday following the Taliban's takeover of the country. (stripes.com)
KABUL: Taliban militants have attacked several government checkpoints in the Ghazni city, provincial capital of the province with the same name, local officials confirmed. (afghanistantimes.af)
Kabul city. (lu.se)
World Health Organization Representative Office for Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan. (who.int)
We are equally grateful to the local communities and all study participants in Kabul City alike, for their enthusiastic participation and openness in sharing their views during the survey. (who.int)
To estimate the prevalence of cigarette's smoking among men population of aged 15yrs and older in Kabul city. (who.int)
A cross sectional study was carried out in Kabul city in September and October 2010. (who.int)
There is a huge spending to buy cigarette due to the low price of cigarette in Kabul city. (who.int)

Taliban forces seized control of the city Monday in a carefully coordinated attack that included assaults from four directions as well as an uprising from inside the city by fighters who had infiltrated during several previous nights. (wsws.org)
Six hundred prisoners were freed, at least 100 captured Taliban among them, who swelled the force occupying the city. (wsws.org)
A spokesman for the Interior Ministry told the Associated Press that Kunduz had "collapsed," and press accounts said that 110 local policemen had simply surrendered as soon as the Taliban entered the city. (wsws.org)
The city is the first to fall to the Taliban since the US-led attack ousted the regime of Mullah Omar in October-November 2001. (wsws.org)
The operation was the first by Taliban military forces inside a major Afghan city. (wsws.org)
The governor of Kunduz Province, Omar Safi, was not in the city when the Taliban seized his office Monday, and there were public demands that President Ghani should replace him. (wsws.org)
LONDON (AP) - The Taliban released four Britons who were detained in Afghanistan on allegations that they broke the laws of the country, the U.K. government said Tuesday. (kfor.com)
The Taliban put women in burkas, they threw girls out of school, they imposed a reign of terror in Afghanistan. (kcur.org)
Overstretched aid agencies said the disaster underscored the need for the international community to rethink its financial cut-off of Afghanistan since Taliban insurgents seized the country 10 months ago. (tricitynews.com)
While such issues have been raised repeatedly following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the international summits on Afghanistan - including four over the past year alone - have invariably focused on the security situation, particularly on progress made in handing over responsibility to the Afghan military in the run-up to 2014. (ipsnews.net)
It is not a great surprise that the Taliban have continued to push in southern Afghanistan, it's their heartland," Gen Dannatt said. (dawn.com)
Local Afghan activists and artists led the rising, following the leadership of women's rights champions on the ground in Afghanistan.Afghan changemakers recounted personal stories or read testimonials of the plight of women under Taliban rule. (onebillionrising.org)
In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban, without the participation of the then Afghan government, signed the US-Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and provided for the withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments. (wikipedia.org)
Naveed Nazari, 19, was shot in the left arm when the Taliban attacked his checkpoint on the outskirts of Kunduz city. (latimes.com)
His village, a cluster of brown mud compounds built alongside dusty barren hills outside Khost city, is host to many Taliban-affiliated families. (latimes.com)
The Taliban administration approved its first budget since the takeover of Afghanistan last August, the Finance Ministry said on Friday. (turkishpress.com)
After the Taliban came to power on Aug. 15, 2021, foreign aid to Afghanistan was cut off, leading to severe economic challenges. (turkishpress.com)
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and seek to meet the highest possible officials within the Taliban-led administration after it banned female aid workers, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. (yahoo.com)
A year after the Taliban re-took control of Afghanistan the eyes of the world have largely turned away and focused instead on other places and other problems such as Covid, the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis which has seen inflation sky-rocket in almost every country in the world. (irishtimes.com)
She was forced to flee Afghanistan because her role as an aid worker for NGOs made her a target for the Taliban. (irishtimes.com)
He paints a very bleak picture of the state of Afghanistan today and is gloomy about its prospects for recovery under the Taliban - an organisation he says has changed little since the dark days of the 1990s when it first seized power. (irishtimes.com)
All international airlines halted flights to Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces departed after two decades of war. (fox2now.com)
In May last year, the Taliban signed a deal allowing an Emirati company to manage three airports in Afghanistan. (fox2now.com)
The recent departure of Australia's final defence personnel comes amid reports American troops could complete their exit 'within days', and as Taliban fighters continue to retake districts across Afghanistan. (abc.net.au)
Taliban fighters stand guard in the site of explosion through a hotel in the city of Khost province eastern of Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. (woodtv.com)
Authorities in Pakistan have said members of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, are hiding in Khost and elsewhere in Afghanistan. (woodtv.com)
TTP is a separate group but is a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, which seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout from the country after 20 years of war. (woodtv.com)
Pakistani officials say many TTP leaders and fighters have found sanctuaries in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, which also emboldened the Pakistani Taliban. (woodtv.com)
The poll from the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research comes two years after the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021 and the Taliban returned to power. (abc4.com)
The Taliban, who seized power last August during the last, chaotic weeks of the withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, have been seeking international recognition in order to open up the country's economy, which has been in free fall since their takeover. (outlookindia.com)
On Wednesday, the Taliban unexpectedly reversed plans to reopen schools in Afghanistan to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on their promise in a move apparently meant to appease their hard-line base at the expense of further alienating the international community. (outlookindia.com)
Wang is one of the highest-level visitors to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. (outlookindia.com)
China has economic and mining interests in Afghanistan and Afghans familiar with past talks between the Taliban and Chinese officials say Beijing wants Taliban commitments to prevent China's Uighur opponents from setting up operations in Afghanistan. (outlookindia.com)
Last July, before the Taliban seized power, Wang hosted a senior Taliban delegation with their top leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in the Chinese city of Tianjin. (outlookindia.com)
At that meeting, Wang sought assurances the Taliban would not allow anti-China groups to operate under their rule and referred to the Taliban as "a pivotal military and political force in Afghanistan. (outlookindia.com)
It has been aligned with the Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan - known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province - an enemy of the Taliban. (outlookindia.com)
The Pentagon has asked the White House to send thousands of more troops to Afghanistan to break the deadlocked fight against the Taliban. (asianage.com)
The Taliban on Sunday welcomed the US recent measure of allowing the flow of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. (asianage.com)
Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister of Taliban caretaker government, on Thursday said that Afghanistan wants to have friendly relations with the international community, including the neighbouring and regional countries, reported Xinhua. (asianage.com)
Violence continues unabated across Afghanistan and the Taliban have seen a string of gains recently. (news.az)
Rashid's 2010 book, Taliban, first introduced American readers to the brutal regime that hijacked Afghanistan and harbored the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. (nyu.edu)
Afghanistan has seen an uptick in violence over the past week, with the Taliban launching attacks in several provinces even as negotiators from the armed group and the Afghan government are still in Qatar's capital for talks aimed at bringing peace to the country. (aljazeera.com)
Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. (centralillinoisproud.com)
With much of the world wary of dealing directly with the Taliban government and focused on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Afghanistan hasn't received an immediate global response. (centralillinoisproud.com)
Officials in Ghazni acknowledged that Taliban captured government checkpoints at the entrance of the city from neighboring province of Wardak direction. (afghanistantimes.af)
Ghazni city fell to Taliban in 2018 when the militants controlled the city for a few days before being driven back by the Afghan and foreign forces. (afghanistantimes.af)
Twenty years have elapsed since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to rout the al Qaeda terrorists behind the September 11 attacks and toppled the Afghan Taliban regime that sheltered them. (nationalgeographic.com)

The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001-2021 war. (wikipedia.org)
At the start of the Biden administration, there were 2,500 US soldiers in Afghanistan and, in April 2021, Biden said the US would not begin withdrawing these soldiers before 1 May, but would complete the withdrawal by 11 September. (wikipedia.org)
The US also launched Operation Allies Refuge to airlift the United States translators and selected Afghan citizens considered at risk of reprisals and US Forces Afghanistan Forward was established on 7 July 2021 as a successor command overseeing the evacuation of all US diplomatic, security, advisory, and counter-terrorism personnel remaining in the country after the withdrawal of US troops. (wikipedia.org)
Active-service members and veterans in the United States have given testimony about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground while imploring Congress to help allies left behind. (abc.net.au)
Navy veteran Bradley Snyder, left, who lost his sight during an Afghanistan blast in 2011, and Greg Billington ceberate after winning a gold medal in the Paralympic triathlon at Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (stripes.com)

At least three people were killed and seven others injured after an explosion ripped through a hotel in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Monday, the province's media office said. (cgtn.com)
For instance, donors pledged to increase the share of assistance delivered through the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund or other routes requested by the Afghan government to 10 percent, with a promise of increasing this to 20 percent by 2025 following Afghan action on anticorruption and broader good-governance measures. (ipsnews.net)
The blast occurred at a city hotel frequented by Afghan people and refugees from Pakistan's former militant stronghold of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan, said Mustaghfir Gurbaz, a police spokesperson in Khost. (woodtv.com)
Maliha Chishti, a lecturer and research associate at the Pearson Institute, said she was struck by the fact that after 20 years of war, so many American and Afghan lives lost and billions spent, the vast majority said they felt Afghanistan was not friendly to the U.S. or was an outright enemy. (abc4.com)
Afghan women mourn relatives killed in an earthquake at a burial site after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (centralillinoisproud.com)

In this handout photo released by MSF Afghanistan, injured people received treatment after a powerful earthquake in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (wtnh.com)
Sri Lanka's Kusal Mendis celebrates after scoring fifty during the Asia Cup cricket match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (yahoo.com)
Sri Lanka's Matheesha Pathirana, third left, celebrates with teammates after the dismissal of Afghanistan's Hashmatullah Shahidi during the Asia Cup cricket match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (yahoo.com)
Afghanistan's Rashid Khan reacts after losing match on the end of the Asia Cup cricket match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (yahoo.com)
Afghanistan's Mohammad Nabi follows the ball after playing a shot for six during the Asia Cup cricket match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (yahoo.com)
Afghanistan's Mohammad Nabi, right, celebrates with Hashmatullah Shahidi after hitting a boundary during the Asia Cup cricket match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (yahoo.com)
Afghanistan's Hashmatullah Shahidi, right, and Rahmat Shah take a run during the Asia Cup cricket match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (yahoo.com)
Sri Lanka's Kasun Rajitha bowls during the Asia Cup cricket match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (yahoo.com)
A general view of the ruined Chaahak village after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (kxnet.com)
On 4- 5 November 2023, the University of Oxford will be hosting a hybrid conference on Afghanistan titled Bringing Afghanistan to Scale: Perspectives on Local, National, and Global Dynamics . (lu.se)

An earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan in June 2022, striking a rugged, mountainous region, wiped out stone and mud-brick homes and killed at least 1,000 people. (centralillinoisproud.com)

Two days later, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan said the highway between Kandahar and Lashkar Gah was inaccessible due to the presence of improvised explosive devices. (aljazeera.com)
Days earlier, the radical Islamist militants had seized Kandahar, the country's second largest city, along with a string of provincial capitals. (nationalgeographic.com)

The latest quake was centered about 30 kilometers (19 miles) outside the city of Herat, the capital of Herat province, and was 6 kilometers (4 miles) below the surface, the U.S. Geological Survey said. (wtnh.com)
Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (kxnet.com)
But there were others who couldn't stop crying and shouting," photographer Omid Haqjoo, who visited four villages Sunday, told The Associated Press by phone from Afghanistan's fourth largest city, Herat. (centralillinoisproud.com)
In the fall of 2008, an outbreak occurred in Herat City, samples from livestock subjects. (cdc.gov)
In August 2009, we conducted a cross- dilution for all human samples by using the VECTOR- sectional seroprevalence survey among livestock-owning BEST diagnostic kit, (VECTOR-BEST, Novosibirsk, households in the same districts of Herat City where the Russia). (cdc.gov)

This suggests that there is a danger of a communal bloodbath by government troops against the largely Pashtun population of the city in the event they retake it by force. (wsws.org)
Government spokesmen said the city was effectively surrounded by troops on three sides, with the Tajikistan border on the north, setting the stage for bloody street-by-street fighting. (wsws.org)
Afghanistan has been top of the news these two weeks since US President Joe Biden began executing his plan to completely withdraw US troops by August 31. (citynews.sg)
Riots in Afghanistan killed around 40 people earlier this year after US troops burnt copies of the Quran on a military base. (dawn.com)
The pair, according to some media reports, were expected to review Pentagon plans for sending more than 15,000 US troops to Afghanistan. (motherjones.com)
Still, one question is whether Obama's basic approach to Afghanistan-which appears to involve beefing up the troops in the NATO-led force there-has a fatal flaw. (motherjones.com)
Although significant numbers of US troops were withdrawn by 2014 and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had concluded, 9,800 US soldiers remained deployed inside of Afghanistan during Operation Freedom's Sentinel, a part of NATO's subsequent Resolute Support Mission (RSM). (wikipedia.org)
In July 2017, when the official number of US troops operating in Afghanistan was 8,400, President Trump gave the US military decision-making authority to increase troop numbers for military operations in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan without first seeking formal approval from the White House. (wikipedia.org)
US troops in Afghanistan number about 8,400 today, and there are another 5,000 from NATO allies, who also mainly serve in an advisory capacity -- a far cry from the US presence of more than 100,000 six years ago. (asianage.com)
McKiernan is taking command of the NATO-led force of some 47,000 troops from 40 countries in Afghanistan. (stripes.com)

GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) - Tents, food and medical supplies rolled into the mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan where thousands were left homeless or injured by this week's powerful earthquake, which state media said killed 1,150 people. (tricitynews.com)
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck part of western Afghanistan on Sunday, after thousands of people died and entire villages were flattened by major quakes a week earlier. (wtnh.com)
Mild tremors were felt in parts of Punjab and Haryana after a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Sunday. (tribuneindia.com)
On the night of March 21, strong tremors had jolted most parts of Punjab and Haryana after an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan, causing people to rush out of buildings. (tribuneindia.com)

It is the largest city in the richest farming area of Afghanistan, the source of much of the country's grain supply. (wsws.org)
WASHINGTON, Jul 10 2012 (IPS) - For the first time, international donors gathered in Tokyo over the weekend explicitly tied ongoing financial aid for Afghanistan to progress made in the country's economy and governance. (ipsnews.net)
Rural Afghanistan, overlooking Paktia province in the country's east. (latimes.com)
And, he said, the U.S. should have had a more specific end goal for how it wanted the war in Afghanistan to go and a better understanding of the country's tribal politics. (abc4.com)

Kunduz represents the only large concentration of Pashtun-speakers in northern Afghanistan, a region otherwise predominantly Tajik and Uzbek speaking. (wsws.org)
Two months ago, his checkpoint on the outskirts of Kunduz city in northern Afghanistan was attacked, leaving three of his colleagues dead. (latimes.com)

We know Afghanistan's security cannot only be measured by the absence of war," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Tokyo on Sunday, where over 70 international donors gathered to define a new aid framework for Afghanistan following the departure of international military forces in 2014. (ipsnews.net)
Camp Leatherneck -Greetings from Camp Leatherneck, a once-bustling base in Afghanistan's Helmand province that is rapidly becoming a ghost town. (militarytimes.com)

President Barack Obama has made clear he is counting on America's NATO allies for greater military contributions in Afghanistan. (motherjones.com)
Just two weeks ago, Gen John Campbell, the US commander of American and Nato forces in the country, admitted that IS has surfaced in Afghanistan. (dawn.com)
Gen. David McKiernan is leaving U.S. Army Europe to become the top commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. (stripes.com)

There have been reports that militants from among the Turkic Muslim Uyghur minority native to China's northwestern region of Xinjiang have found shelter in Afghanistan. (outlookindia.com)

The family has since moved to Khost city, the provincial capital, but Hadia says she's constantly afraid. (latimes.com)

Further leading to fear have been statements by President Trump that he could wipe Afghanistan off the face of the earth and bring the war to an end in 10 days - even as the peace talks continue in Doha, Qatar. (latimes.com)

The economy has collapsed and people are starving, prompting the UN to describe the situation in Afghanistan as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. (irishtimes.com)

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of common risk factors for NCDs among the adult population an urban setting in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan. (who.int)

She said the responses demonstrate a frustration on the part of Americans and the need to ask questions about what went wrong with America's attempts to intervene in Afghanistan. (abc4.com)

Founded in 2015, ISIS-K is based on the Khorasan region, which encompasses parts of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. (telesurenglish.net)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - Sri Lanka escaped with a two-run victory and qualified for the Super 4 in the Asia Cup after Afghanistan somewhat miscalculated its chase of a tough target in the last group game on Tuesday. (yahoo.com)
While Iraq continues to attract much of American media and military might, Rashid argues that Pakistan and Afghanistan are where the conflict will finally be played out and that these failing states pose a graver threat to global security than the Middle East. (nyu.edu)
and Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (2012). (nyu.edu)
On 13 November, the temporary recommendations were supplemented with specific measures for Pakistan because of escalating wild poliovirus transmission in that country and the ongoing cross-border exportation of the virus into Afghanistan. (who.int)

We don't do "bad news" from Afghanistan or Iraq. (dawn.com)

Though he hasn't returned to Afghanistan, Mahmood hopes Noosh can channel the spirit of his people in its homestyle cooking. (lansingcitypulse.com)
Gul and his family - at least 20 people including his brothers and their wives and children - live, like thousands of others across Afghanistan, in harm's way. (latimes.com)
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced that the number of people facing acute food insecurity in Afghanistan is at least 18.8 million, and this number is expected to rise to 22.8 million during the winter. (turkishpress.com)
Raising alarm over the deteriorating conditions, UN chief Antonio Guterres has also called on the World Bank to immediately release $1.2 billion to help Afghanistan and its people. (turkishpress.com)
What next for Afghanistan and its people? (irishtimes.com)
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The United Nations' World Food Program on Wednesday appealed for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan. (wtnh.com)
The UN body was forced earlier this year to reduce the amount of food families receive and to cut 10 million people in Afghanistan from life-saving food assistance due to a massive funding shortfall. (wtnh.com)
The OCHA office in Afghanistan, however, told Al Jazeera that assessment teams from a number of organisations were still verifying these figures, with 5,000 people confirmed so far. (aljazeera.com)
MSF Afghanistan said that between October 11 and 16, it received 56 people - including pregnant women and children. (aljazeera.com)
Additionally, in our ER, we admitted 33 people who have been displaced by the fighting, but these people were admitted for medical conditions that were not related to direct injuries sustained from the fighting," said MSF Afghanistan. (aljazeera.com)
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Men dug through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in western Afghanistan Sunday in desperate attempts to pull victims from the wreckage left by powerful earthquakes that killed at least 2,000 people. (centralillinoisproud.com)
There's not much disaster management capacity and what there is can't cover people on the ground," said Salma Ben Aissa, the committee's country director for Afghanistan. (centralillinoisproud.com)
Mediterranean region, which typically people might refer to as the Middle East, most of those kids came from Afghanistan and Iraq, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas, as well as a few children from the Western Pacific region and very few from Europe. (cdc.gov)

Secretary of Defense Bob Gates was scheduled to brief President Barack Obama on Afghanistan on Monday afternoon. (motherjones.com)
But at Monday's daily press briefing, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said nothing so definitive was on the agenda and that the Obama administration's review of its Afghanistan policy was still under way. (motherjones.com)
In 2014, US President Barack Obama announced that the US would withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, concluding Operation Enduring Freedom. (wikipedia.org)

On Friday, the United States issued general licenses, allowing the US government, NGOs and certain international organizations to engage in transactions that are necessary to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. (asianage.com)

In fact, it is responsible for 85 percent of all attacks perpetrated in Afghanistan between September 18 and November 30, according to the Chinese outlet. (telesurenglish.net)
Slightly fewer than half - 46% - say the U.S. and its allies were successful at the goal of apprehending or killing the individuals in Afghanistan who were responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, compared with 25% who think the U.S. was unsuccessful in achieving that goal. (abc4.com)
A police officer in Ghazni city speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday that the attacks had taken place in the Shahbaz Khan, Esfanda, Al Birnouni, Qala-e-Qazi and Jangal Bagh neighborhoods. (afghanistantimes.af)

Snyder is a Navy veteran who lost his sight from a blast in Afghanistan in 2011. (stripes.com)

Eliminating the threat from Islamic extremists in Afghanistan during the war is still seen as an important goal by many across party lines: 46% of Democrats and 44% of Republicans called that highly important. (abc4.com)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) welcomes the recent decision by US Treasury Department allowing US government agencies along with international and non-governmental organizations and banks to facilitate the flow of food and medicine to the IEA," said the ministry's spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi in a statement, reported Xinhua. (asianage.com)
This was still Afghanistan, a conservative Islamic society. (nationalgeographic.com)

Afghanistan has 34 provinces and around 400 districts. (news.az)

We left Afghanistan in a situation where the Afghans were in control and the future was in their hands. (dawn.com)
Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the possibility of a complete economic collapse in Afghanistan was "serious," highlighting an urgent need for funding support to Afghans. (asianage.com)
Afghanistan has taken a step backward, but it is my hope that Afghans will, one day, experience a higher level of liberty and democracy. (stripes.com)

Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan lasted for 13 years from 2001 to 2014. (bridgecitynews.ca)

Karim Jannat (22), Najibullah Zadran (23) and Rashid Khan (27 not out) kept pushing on Sri Lanka pace and spin with little cameos before Mujeeb Ur Rahman holed out at long on as Afghanistan slumped to 289-9 in 37.1 overs. (yahoo.com)
No. 11 batter Fazalhaq Farooqi defended the next two balls of part-time spinner de Silva before getting trapped lbw off the next ball that left Rashid stranded at the non-striker's end and Afghanistan was bowled out for 289 in 37.4 overs. (yahoo.com)

Ana Maria Salhuana, deputy country director of the World Food Program in Afghanistan, said it was helping survivors but it urgently needed more funding because "we are having to take this food from an already severely underfunded program. (wtnh.com)
The International Rescue Committee warned that the lack of rescue equipment could push up the death toll in western Afghanistan because trapped survivors cannot be freed. (centralillinoisproud.com)

The International Red Cross has five hospitals in the region, but damage to the roads made it difficult for those in the worse-hit areas to reach them, said Lucien Christen, ICRC spokesman in Afghanistan. (tricitynews.com)

Today, it's really hard to find anyone to defend U.S. foreign assistance in Afghanistan over the past several years. (ipsnews.net)
The approved budget was the first to exclude foreign aid in Afghanistan after 20 years of US occupation. (turkishpress.com)
In talking about post-traumatic stress disorder, Harry said that his return from Afghanistan in 2012 triggered emotions that he suppressed after the death of his mother, Princess Diana, when he was just 12 years old. (kfor.com)
As the US war in Afghanistan comes to an end, here's a look at why it began, what happened over these 20 years, and what the future looks like. (abc.net.au)
McKiernan has agreed to stay up to two years in Afghanistan, he said. (stripes.com)
15 years of age per hemorrhagic fever in western Afghanistan, we measured household). (cdc.gov)
In recent years, several CCHF each household and included each animal's origin, tick outbreaks were reported in Afghanistan, and the disease exposure, age, and sex. (cdc.gov)

LONDON (AP) - Britain's Prince Harry says he didn't have the support he needed when he returned home from combat in Afghanistan as he reached out to other veterans in a new Netflix series about the Invictus Games for injured soldiers. (kfor.com)
Our veterans know something else that this committee might do well to consider: We might be done with Afghanistan, but it's not done with us. (abc.net.au)

They can continue to use terror and violence to try to recover their situation in Afghanistan, in which case they will be met by continued opposition from Afghanistan and its partners. (kcur.org)

The town of Nili is at 2,022 m altitude. (wikipedia.org)

On a warm autumn day in New York City, activists gathered outside the United Nations to rally for and with the women of Afghanistan. (onebillionrising.org)
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, New York City, New York, United States of America. (who.int)
Huebner et al first isolated and named rickettsialpox in 1946 in New York City. (medscape.com)
You Can Help Stop TB in New York City! (cdc.gov)

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a civilian aid worker from San Francisco was killed in a weekend attack on a U.N. vehicle in Afghanistan. (ktvu.com)

File photo shows US envoy Chris Stevens, center, who was killed with three other officials when a mob attacked the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, Libya over the religiously offensive film. (dawn.com)
Relief sets in almost instantly as the engine passes over the family's eastern Afghanistan compound and disappears in the distance. (latimes.com)

However, Afghanistan has inked bilateral military partnerships with several governments in recent weeks. (ipsnews.net)
As the driver of both the military and development approach in Afghanistan over the past decade, of course, much of this language is pointed at the United States. (ipsnews.net)
The Soviet Union's military foray into Afghanistan was disastrous by nearly every measure, but perhaps the worst single incident was the Salang Tunnel explosion in 1982. (history.com)
An attack on a military base in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif left at least 135 security forces dead last month. (asianage.com)

Twenty- three cases were reported in Afghanistan, primarily as a result of cross-border importation. (who.int)

It was once a vast city organized around the extraction and trade of copper. (indiawest.com)

TOKYO - A former Navy lieutenant who lost his eyesight after stepping on an improvised bomb in Afghanistan won a gold medal for Team USA in the Paralympic triathlon Saturday. (stripes.com)

The government of Afghanistan is an accountable government and cannot bombard inside the cities, and it will not," he claimed. (wsws.org)
In 2005, a high-level government commission was appointed to assess the expansion of the existing city. (thediplomat.com)
The #UnitedStates government lied about #Afghanistan . (telesurenglish.net)
10 the efects of good and bad government in the city ( 368 ). (who.int)

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