1.(Placename) the capital of Afghanistan, in the northeast of the country at an altitude of 1800 m (5900 ft) on theKabul River: over 3000 years old, with a strategic position commanding passes through the Hindu Kush and main routes to the Khyber Pass; destroyed and rebuilt many times; ...
discontented with the war, which dragged on without success but with continuing casualties. In the spring of 1992, Najibullah's government collapsed and, after 14 years of rule by the People's Democratic party, Kabul fell to a coalition of mujahidin under the military leadership of Ahmed Shah...
Sky News looks at who theTalibanare, how they have come to power and what they want for Afghanistan. Who are the Taliban? The Taliban, which means "students" in the Pashto language, have been waging an insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul since th...
A suicide bomber struck an education center in a Shiite area of Kabul on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, according to officials. 2 years ago Afghan refugee family reflects on escape, new life in US One year later, an Afghan family reflects on their escape from Afghanistan and wh...
Pew Research Center. Oct. 4-7, 2012. N=1,511 adults nationwide. 5/2/11: Co-sponsored by The Washington Post. "How well is the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan going: very well, fairly well, not too well, or not at all well?" N=762 (Form 1), margin of error ± 4.1. ...
Free Cleft Lip, Palate Surgeries By Bangladeshi Doctors Begin in Kabul The head of the Bangladeshi medical center pledged their continued cooperation in Afghanistan. Ministry: Budget Approved for Construction of 318 Hospitals in Districts Additionally, the WHO announced that since 2021, it has trained...
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More than40 volunteers at the University of Pittsburgh‘s Center for Governance and Markets are (were?) helping too. And then there are people like me, alone, trying to help Afghans they worked with: I see the posts all over Twitter and my LinkedIn account by people asking for advice, ...
The Bronx Documentary Center opening reception will be followed by the IWMFAnja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Awardceremony. The exhibition will travel to Cambridge MA, 9-10 May 2024, co-sponsored by theNieman Foundationand theShorenstein Centerat Harvard University. Anja was a Nieman Fellow...
It was especially sad for me to see so much trouble come to Afghanistan. Oddly enough, when I lived in Honolulu, 1972-1975, I knew a group of Afghan students who lived at theEast-West Centerat the Unversity of Hawaii. I saw them frequently at the Cafeteria and got to be friends with...