Widows suffer in Afghan village
103407
Fatama's husband left home one night to smuggle drugs from their mud-thatch border village into Iran. The next morning, her brother-in-law gave her the news: Her husband had been killed.
353874
In the face of Taliban threats, many women fear the shame a public death would bring their families.
163433
His gut was twisted into a knot, his head pounding, his leg searing in pain from a gunshot wound. Ibrahim Mohamed Doud, a village elder in an African tribe, remembers the day an
110487
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Nearly a decade ago, Munira Subasic lost her husband and son in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since the Holocaust.
472212
War lives on long after the last clods of dirt turn over a soldier&#039;s grave. It hangs from the faces of husbands and wives &amp;#151; mostly wives &amp;#151; whose lives crumble after foreign horrors take their spouses.
432927
In Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, bridegrooms are expected to pay for their weddings, including money for the brideâs family.
604666
BUJUMBURA, Burundi  - Slashed heads, gashed faces,  the bodies of men, women and children strewn across a remote  refugee camp.
75469
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan elders yesterday said that 108 civilians were killed in a bombing campaign in western Afghanistan, while villagers in the northeast said 25 Afghans died in airstrikes, including some who were killed while burying dead relatives.
186292
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town that British troops had left after a contentious peace agreement in October, destroying the government center and temporarily holding elders hostage, officials and residents said yesterday.
75482
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza  - The pockmarked house is deserted. Among the smashed furniture lie posters of women and children killed by Israeli shells two weeks ago.
670953
BESLAN, Russia -- Relatives wandered among rows and rows of plastic body bags at a morgue yesterday, searching for loved ones who had died at the end of a three-day siege by Chechen rebels the day before.
552508
KABUL -- Hundreds of villagers fled a southern Afghan town yesterday overrun by Taliban militants, fearful of a NATO attack on the insurgent fighters , residents said. General David Richards, NATO's outgoing commander, said "very surgical and deliberate" force would be used to evict the fighters from Musa Qala, where he said the alliance's strategy of avoiding military action has ...
451156
BARA KALA, Afghanistan -- The rickety diesel drill digging a new well at the edge of a parched field represents the sum total of reconstruction so far in this village in eastern Afghanistan.
721352
Militants who claim to be holding a Northern Ireland woman and two others hostage in Afghanistan have said they are suffering the effects of the cold and a poor diet.
473707
Text of report by Afghan independent Ariana TV on 15 December  [Presenter] A number of residents of the Tora Bora area of Nangarhar complain that stillborn babies in the area are disabled and defective.
88781
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Perhaps they should have seen it coming, but Afghanistan's traditional fortune tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.
689324
Tales of horror emerge from the refugee camp where fighting stopped temporarily after three bloody days