Afghans Who Fled Conflict Face Cultural Divide in U.S.
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Aman Feda, an Afghan-born mortgage broker, cringed at his 13-year-old niece's choice of music, the hip-hop blaring from the car radio, the lyrics grating on his nerves as they drove home after shopping at Tysons Corner.
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Fighting between NATO-led forces and insurgents across southern Afghanistan has displaced an estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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KARACHI, Pakistan -- A veteran Afghan warlord wanted by the United States has distanced himself from the Taliban and given his strongest indication yet that he was open to talks with President Hamid Karzai.
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KABUL -- Four years after NATO began an expanded mission in Afghanistan, members of the 26-nation alliance are divided over anti-drug and reconstruction policies, rising civilian casualties and what some say is heavy-handed U.S. leadership, according to interviews with military officials and dipl...
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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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U.S.-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.
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Eased-up American military operations could persuade former Taliban militants to return home from countries such as Pakistan, the chief of the U.N. refugee agency said Saturday. Thousands of Taliban supporters fled to Pakistan and Iran &#151; many with their entire families &#151; when U.S. forces and Afghan anti-Taliban militias drove them from power in late 2001 for harboring Osama bin Laden.
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Afghan women in New York have had to strike a balance growing up in a comparatively freewheeling society with parents who have held tight to their Afghan conventions.
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Up to 90,000 Afghans have been displaced by fighting between NATO-led forces and Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan, the United Nations refugee agency has said.
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DOBUNDI, Afghanistan -- Anguish creased the weathered face of the opium farmer as a US-trained eradication team swept through his farm fields in this southern Afghan village.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - There are no paintings in  the Tajbeg Palace, but the bullet-pocked walls tell their own  epic tale of Afghanistan's turbulent history.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan - At first glance the election commissionâs map of Afghanistan appears to be a colour-coded layout of the countryâs patchwork ethnic groups.
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ÂReturn of the Taliban,Â on Frontline Tuesday, examines why the United States appears to be losing ground against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- In the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where his $100 million empire is based, inquiries about Haji Bashir Noorzai elicit an anxious frown, a shrug or the vague explanation that he left years ago.
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Fighting between NATO-led forces and  insurgents across southern Afghanistan has displaced an  estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months, the  U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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The party that lost on Nov. 2 wrestles with how to add nuance on a key cultural divide in America.
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It is an ordinary inn in Queens, catering to truckers and salesmen. But to refugees fleeing war and worse, it is the portal to a safe, long-sought world.