Afghanistan's 'Lost' Heritage Found in Musty Boxes
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More than 22,000 ancient cultural  treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after  decades of war and Taliban rule, have been taken out of dusty  crates and safes in Kabul and inventoried for safekeeping, said  a U.S. archeologist on Wednesday.
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One of the latest tools being deployed in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan seems to be old-fashioned. Think weather balloons or blimps.
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PRAGUE, Dec 27 (IPS) - Poland has woken up to the possibility that its  troops in Afghanistan were involved in a war crime against  defenceless civilians.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Three years after the US invasion, Paktia Province and the rest of southeastern Afghanistan illustrate the mixed results of an intervention that ousted the Taliban regime but has yet to capture Osama bin Laden or forge a stable, centralized state to keep out terrorists for good.
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In Afghanistan, suicide bombers are buried without ceremony,the forgettable end to an unforgivable act.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- They arrived in December 2002 to do what had never been done : bring remote, unruly Paktia province under the control of a central Afghan government.
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SAKYAN, Afghanistan  - Afghan village elder Noor Mohammad stroked his white beard as he listened to a local government chief appeal for help to rebuild the economy of this snow-bound plateau shattered by war and the fight with the Taliban.
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An Afghan polling official shows a UN worker, left, a sealed ballot box at a collecting station in the southern city of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004.
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For 25 years, Mohammed Akbar Salam painted the style that he and his colleagues knew &#151; realism. Under the ultra-restrictive Taliban regime, depictions of the human figure were forbidden, and their work shriveled to an austere repertoire of calligraphy and still life.
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The UK government faces fresh claims that its troops in Afghanistan lack vital equipment.
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CHENARI, Afghanistan -- NATO helicopter gunships found the shattered wreckage of a missing Afghan airliner on a frigid mountain east of the capital yesterday, and officials said they believed none of the 104 people aboard could have survived the crash.
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In the early 1950s one of my childhood passions was stamp collecting. The shifting contours of the British Empire meant that old countries seemed to be constantly in a state of flux.
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The Soviet invasion of the late 1970s that drove Afghans into a long and bloody resistance has been recorded in this nation's favourite and most famous art form -- carpets.
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It is often said, with some justification, that Afghanistan isnât so much a single country as a collection of fiefdoms, each run by a local warlord.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - They survived three decades of war but risk being toppled by road traffic -- the last five mediaeval minarets of Herat are being slowly shaken to dust.
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Ballots are being counted in Afghanistan, after delays created by irregularities in Saturday's elections.
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KARABAGH, Afghanistan -- When Mahmad Naib ventured back to his village north of Kabul after U.S. warplanes and Afghan fighters drove out the Taliban militia in November 2001, he found little but scorched earth. The grapevines were dead, the houses looted, the mosque in ruins and the magnificent...