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By Abubakar Siddique Like millions of Afghans, Izharul Haq dreams of seeing peace and security restored to his homeland. And like millions of Afghans, Haq will be paying close attention this week for signs of how President...
SHEBERGHAN, 29 October 2009 (IRIN) - Several thousand people returning to their homes in the northern Afghan provinces of Sar-i-Pul and Jowzjan need help before winter, according to aid agencies and local officials. Aid...
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, 4 October 2009 (IRIN) - Dozens of families from the Kaldar and Shortepa districts of Balkh Province, in northern Afghanistan, have been displaced from their homes after the Amu River burst its banks, provincial...
As Western concern mounts over the delayed Afghan election results, interest among locals may be ebbing. It seems that, for a host of reasons, many Afghans see only trouble to be had in a push for a run-off election. Many feel...
Kabul: A new message from the Taliban's reclusive leader says the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) should study Afghanistan's long history of war in a reminder that foreign forces have had limited success in...
KABUL, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Five Afghan civilians were killed and two others sustained injures as unidentified armed men attacked the crowd in Jawzjan province, north of Afghanistan Friday night, said a statement of Interior...
AFP/File – Burqa-clad Afghan women attend a peace march in Herat ahead of United Nations Peace Day on September … KABUL (AFP) – Two children were killed when a suicide attacker believed to have been a woman blew herself up in a...
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - Preparations for 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan underway I. Humanitarian Overview Access According to UNDSS, the number...
KABUL (AFP) – Two devastating suicide attacks in Afghanistan in the fortnight since elections show the Taliban is penetrating ever deeper in its war against the Kabul government and its international backers. An attack on...
by Hadi Mayar KABUL, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of partial results, announced by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan showed sufficient public support for President Hamid Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun,...
