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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 1, 2018
In October 2017, insurgents controlled or influenced nearly half of Afghanistan's districts, the U.S. government's office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in January. It remained unclear how polling would be held in the contested areas and whether Afghans lacking identityÃâà...
TRT World
March 23, 2018
Afghan men carry a wounded man into a hospital following a car bomb in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province on March 23, 2018. (AFP). A car bomb killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more who had gathered to watch a wrestling match in southern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 21, 2018
Afghan officials say a suicide attack outside a Shi'ite mosque in Kabul killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens, as people in the capital ... Norouz is a national holiday, widely celebrated in Afghanistan, but has also faced opposition from some fundamentalist Muslims, who say it is un-Islamic. AfghanÃâà...
Firstpost
March 17, 2018
Kabul: A suicide attacker blew up a bomb-laden vehicle in Kabul on Saturday, killing at least two civilians and wounding several others, an Afghan official ... districts – double the percentage in 2015, the US government's office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in January.
The Straits Times
March 15, 2018
Donald Trump, the third child of Jamila and Sayed Assadullah (left), who was born in Shahristan district deep in the central Afghan province of Daikundi on Sept 3, 2016. ... At the government office in Kabul responsible for verifying IDs from other provinces, Assadullah said he was treated with disrespect.
Channel NewsAsia
March 14, 2018
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last month unveiled a plan to open talks to end the 16-year-old war, offering to negotiate with the Taliban without any ... districts -- double the percentage in 2015, the US government's office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said in January.
New Straits Times Online
March 14, 2018
(File pix) Sayed Asadullah sits next to his son named after US President Donald Trump, at their home in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 14, 2018. Afghan boy Donald Trump was born in late 2016 for an Afghan Muslim family who named their third son after US President Donald Trump, in a bid to bring someÃâà...
New York Times
March 13, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — Even in his mother's womb, Donald Trump was unusually sensitive. On nights when his mother was distressed, he would become restless, turning and kicking. Then, on a rainy autumn afternoon in a dusty village of about 200 adobe homes, it was time for his birth. There were noÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 13, 2018
KABUL - Calls for increased protection of women's rights and the inclusion of women in decision-making processes framed discussions at UN-backed events across Afghanistan. This week and last, hundreds of women and men from government offices, religious institutions, academia, media and civilÃâà...
TRT World
March 12, 2018
The Taliban overran a district headquarters in Afghanistan's western Farah province early on Monday, killing and wounding at least 15 members of the ... district headquarters is under the insurgents' control and right now, an intense battle is going on all around the district centre and government offices,"Ãâà...
Iranian
March 12, 2018
In Afghanistan, beginning in 1994, the Taliban, once considered U.S. allies and championed as freedom fighters by western media, took the oppression ... the rhetoric of patriotism to gradually reimpose veiling, first for government employees, then for any woman accessing government offices and buildings,Ãâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 12, 2018
... and the law on access to information.” Denying media and journalists access to information meant depriving people from the same and that was why people had lost faith in the regime, Khilwatgar added. “Some government offices demand official letters from journalists to allow them access to information.
TRT World
March 12, 2018
The Taliban overran a district headquarters in Afghanistan's western Farah province early on Monday, killing and wounding at least 15 members of the ... district headquarters is under the insurgents' control and right now, an intense battle is going on all around the district centre and government offices,"Ãâà...
Military Times
March 5, 2018
But each family that contacted the Military Times described long bureaucratic delays as cases were transferred between government offices or agents and ... “As this country is engaged in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we must do everything we can to address the immigration needs of our soldiers,” theÃâà...
TIME
February 28, 2018
The new Hulu series The Looming Tower, premiering on Wednesday, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, by Lawrence Wright — a book that TIME selected as one of the All-TIME 100 best nonfiction books, for its “thoroughly researched and incisively written” account of the rise ofÃâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban staged three attacks in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 20 Afghan soldiers as a high-level NATO ... at a checkpoint in Kabul on the edge of the Green Zone, a heavily guarded district of embassies, Afghan government offices and the presidential palace.
Bismarck Tribune
February 19, 2018
JAMESTOWN -- Tiffany Abentroth of Cummings, has never been elected to a local or state government office. ... Abentroth, who was in Jamestown for the District 29 Republican Convention, said she just finished a 20-month tour in Afghanistan as the in-country manager for a biometric intelligence program.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
In 1987, he found himself amid Afghan mujahideen, Egyptian Islamic fundamentalists and Hezbollah leaders in the home of Ayatollah Ruhollah ... Nader showed up at Israeli government offices, said Nimrod Novik, then the chief adviser on foreign policy to former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres,Ãâà...
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