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Afghans Adapting to Economic Decline, Social Restrictions

Externa nyheter USIP: New data show hunger, privation in Afghanistan for a second winter in a row.

Six people wounded in explosion in Jalalabad

Externa nyheter Security officials say the explosion was caused by an IED embedded in a flowerpot.

Ministry Reviewing Proposals for Mine Extraction

Externa nyheter The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum is considering the proposals submitted by companies for the extraction of eight major mines in the western provinces of Ghor and Herat.

Virtual exhibition: Herat, the Pearl of Khorasan

Externa nyheter Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in cooperation with Google Arts, presents a virtual exhibition to introduce some historical places in Herat province.

Students among 15 killed in Afghan school explosion

Externa nyheter Local officials say at least 15 people were killed and 20 others wounded in a bombing at a madrasa in northern Samangan province.

Ground Zero

Externa nyheter The Evacuation of the CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One of the War’s Blackest Boxes

Swiss-Based Trust Fund for Frozen Afghan Assets Meets in Geneva

Externa nyheter The board of a Swiss-based trust fund managing some $3.5 billion in frozen assets seized after the Islamic Emirate took power last year is meeting in Geneva for the first time on Monday, a Swiss government spokesperson confirmed.
The frozen central bank reserves were recently transferred from Washington into the 'Fund for the Afghan People' where U.S. officials say it will be shielded from the Islamic Emirate. The latter has condemned the transfer, calling it a violation of international norms.

Paktia Families Displaced by Clashes with Pakistan

Externa nyheter One Islamic Emirate forces member and one civilian were killed, and 14 civilians were wounded, in clashes that occurred along the Durand Line in the Dand-e-Patan district of Paktia province, a source within the Ministry of Defense told TOLOnews.

New Afghanistan Welfare Monitoring Survey presented

Externa nyheter World Bank study finds that two-thirds of households in Afghanistan find it difficult to meet basic food and non-food needs.