Mufti Ali Marjan Majrokh, District Administrator and Police Chief of Daimirdad district, told religious scholars and local ...

Wardak Province, Afghanistan — It's been a year since the last U.S. troops were pulled out of Afghanistan after 20 years of war. But while the battles have ended, there are still outbreaks of violence ...

Everything in Afghanistan has a different sense of proportion. It’s as if you are living in a different world. The Taliban ...

WASHINGTON/KABUL, Mar 10 2013 (IPS) – Two weeks after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the withdrawal of all U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) from Wardak province by this date, the issue ...

Wardak province, Afghanistan, Oct. 17, 2009: Explosive ordnance technicians scour the scene after a triggerman at the other end of a command wire detonated a bomb under a U.S. military vehicle in the ...

First of two parts. See part two here. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes editions, Nov. 24, 2009. It is republished unedited in its original form. Wardak province, Afghanistan — It ...