Afghanistan's wars woven into carpets
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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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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...
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Evidence emerges of increasing concern over the scale of British army casualties in southern Afghanistan.
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A glance at Chechnya and its conflict:
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KABUL, Afghanistan - In advance of Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election, Muslim clerics urged Friday worshippers to embrace democracy, election workers scurried to ready voting booths and 100,000 troops went on high alert across the country.    After the discovery of a truck laden with 10,000 gallons of gasoline and rigged with anti-tank mines, a nation that has known nothing but war held its breath in hopes that a threat by the Taliban to sabotage Saturday's vote would not materialize...
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Few people would envy Hamid Karzai. The Afghan president finds himself grappling with maintaining stability in the capital while fighting grows ever bloodier in the south. He must also satisfy the conflicting demands of his countrymen and his foreign allies.
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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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Afghanistan used to be content merely to supply most of the world's heroin. Now a growing number of Afghans are using the drug as well
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Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the fighting in Afghanistan is growing more intense &#151; but so is talk of peace.
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(SH) - Maybe things aren&#39;t going so well in Iraq, but we must be doing something right in Afghanistan, which so often seems a sideshow in the war on terror.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 15 -- Despite scattered gains by international troops fighting Taliban insurgents in the country's south, Afghan and foreign analysts here have voiced concern that a recent peace initiative is backfiring and that lapsed Afghan militias could be drawn into the conflict...
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - A collection of pre-Islamic  wooden idols chopped up by the Taliban in 2001 in their drive  for a pure Muslim state is back on display in Afghanistan after  painstaking repair in a project financed by the Austrian  government.
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Afghanistan risks turning into a failed state and becoming a forgotten war, a US study says.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- It's 11 a.m., and traffic on Taru Buz Khan Street is nearly jammed in both directions, crawling past a row of computer shops with stacks of Dell boxes in the front windows.
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Mirwais Yasini, director general of  Afghanistan's counter-narcotics department, tells the story of  how a British general asked him for a list of Afghan commanders  involved in the drug trade.
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As the U.S. was preoccupied with Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorist activity spread in other regions.