Afghanistan

UN: Afghanistan slow to enforce law on women

The United Nations says that Afghan authorities have been slow in enforcing a law protecting women against forced marriages, domestic violence and rape.
December 8, 2013

It is the least expensive way to get food and fuel to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. But eight months after Pakistan reopened its ground supply routes for the NATO war effort, hardly any new cargo has taken that path into the country.

Contractor killed in attack in eastern Afghanistan

U.S. officials say three men wearing Afghan army uniforms and driving an Afghan army vehicle forced their way onto a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan and opened fire, killing one civilian contractor.

Mattis sought larger US force in Afghanistan

The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East told senators for the first time Tuesday that he had envisioned keeping about 20,000 troops in Afghanistan after combat operations end in 2014, far more than the number the Obama administration and NATO are considering.

Dam and other Afghanistan projects being scaled back

When Marines surged into southern Afghanistan in 2010, one of their priorities was to secure a dam so the U.S. Agency for International Development could begin reconstruction. Dozens of troops were killed in combat to evict the Taliban. Now USAID has opted not to finish the $266 million project.

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Bamiyan: Rugged, poor and endlessly beautiful

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Beyond the famous Buddhas and their infamous demise at the hands of Taliban soldiers lie a city and a province steeped in history and struggling with the present.
On the last 'safe' road to Bamiyan, threats, bribes and worse

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Bamiyan, a picturesque but deeply impoverished province in north-central Afghanistan, has remained largely peaceful since international forces left earlier this year, but now a neighbor’s instability is making life difficult for residents.
Trouble in Afghanistan's most peaceful province may hint at the post-NATO reality

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Less than an hour’s drive from the sleepy city of Bamiyan, with its giant Buddhas, nascent tourism industry, and zero foreign troops, this rugged mountain district in what many consider the safest province in the country has quietly become a tense battleground between government forces and insurgents. It may provide a peek at what Afghanistan faces in a post-NATO world.
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