The chaos of over two decades of warfare has left Afghanistan without an infrastructure of any kind and without human rights. Human rights suffered especially after 1996, when the Taliban, a group of Islamic fundamentalists, captured Kabul and resolved...

Ethnic differences are strongest when other significant differences—religious, ideological, economic, geographic, linguistic—reinforce distinctions between one ethnic group and another. Although Afghanistan is a complex country in terms...

(1909–1978), Afghan political figure. Muhammad Daud belonged to the royal family of Afghanistan. Educated in Europe (1921–1930) while his father was in temporary exile, he joined the army on his return to Afghanistan. In 1934 he married...

(1790–1886), Afghan hero. Din Mohammad is a national hero of Afghanistan, renowned for his undying enmity to the British. He was a mullah (Islamic cleric), whose grandfather came from India and settled in Ghazni, a city southwest of Kabul. Din...

Afġānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Persian: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان, Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامى جمهوريت ), is a landlocked country that is located in south Asia. It is variously...

ATTACK ON AMERICA AFGHANISTAN Taliban vow revenge if U.S. attacks nation By AMIR SHAH Associated Press Saturday, September 15, 2001 Kabul, Afghanistan -- The ruling Taliban threatened revenge Friday if the United States attacks Afghanistan for shielding suspected...

Afghanistan, 250,000 square miles of often forbidding terrain pinched between Iran and Pakistan, has been controlled by the radical Islamic Taliban movement since 1996. Negotiating -- even reasoning -- with the Taliban has vexed governments and international organizations ever since the group assumed...

Sixteen militants fighting under a wanted Uzbek warlord with a $200,000 bounty on his head were killed in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Monday.U.S. forces early Sunday called in the strikes against fighters of Tahir Yuldash, the leader of the Islamic Movement of...

Afghanistan celebrated its independence from British rule Sunday with a military parade and colorful display of national dresses on the grounds of a stadium once used by the Taliban for public executions.Taliban leader Mullah Omar, meanwhile, called on the people to join militants in their...

Details the unequal treatment of womem in Afghanistan. Describes the personal story of one young girl and her experiences and depicted in her personal journals.

It is an essay on the trials and tribulations that the Afghani people endure because of their government being in constant turmoil.