An Afghan village girl blossoms in the city
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She ran from an arranged marriage into a Western household.
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Shamila Kohestani, the captain of the Afghanistan national womenâs soccer team who was deprived an education for much of her childhood, is now growing as a student in America.
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Afghan teenager Fatima Mohammadi huffed and panted to finish last in the women&#39;s 100-metres heats at the world championships Sunday -- but sent a message that her country is on the right track.
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For Westerners living in the Afghan capital, the attack on a prized social sanctuary may mark the end of their access to streets and the people they're here to help
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SOFIA: Farmers in the southeastern Afghan province of Ningharhar are to turn from opium production to instead produce rose oil, a key component of perfume, by planting 40,000 Bulgarian rose plants, a report ...
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SHEIKHABAD, Afghanistan -- In a small, sunlit parlor last week, 20 little girls seated on rush mats sketched a flower drawn on the blackboard. In a darker interior room, 15 slightly older girls memorized passages from the Koran, reciting aloud. Upstairs was a class of teenage girls, hidden from public view.
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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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A curfew restores some calm in the Afghan city of Herat, after violent   protests at the sacking of its governor.
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Taleban forces in southern Afghanistan take control of a town at the centre of controversial UK peace deal.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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Abdul Razaq stands among the menfolk of this dusty village of Afghan nomads and rejoices that democracy has at last come to his country after more than two decades of warfare.
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AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan  - Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don't have to look far to see the dangers.
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.
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Fishnet stockings and high heels are not  the norm for riot police, but this is Afghanistan.
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A petite village woman with dark henna on her hands lies wrapped in a blue sheet at the best hospital around -- a British military facility in southern Afghanistan.
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A hi-tech bomb, similar to the ones used by militants in Iraq, is found in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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"From a bird's eye view, the camera zooms in on an ordinary American provincial town, small houses come in closer and get bigger until we swoop into one of them, where a girl lies on her bed."