Afghanistan

3 Feb 12
Clandestine meetings and confrontational officials make pinning down details of illicit passport sales a difficult job.
1 Feb 12
But officials claim success in creating greener, cleaner urban environment.
IWPR Afghanistan country director Noorrahman Rahmani interviewed after the Kabul screening of “Forgotten Victims”. (Photo: IWPR)
31 Jan 12
Documentary helps some come to terms with abuses, and younger audience to learn more about past crimes.
30 Jan 12
In eastern province, some insurgents are ready to stop fighting.
26 Jan 12
Pakistani blockade squeezing availability of vehicle fuel.
25 Jan 12
Once-thriving industry now in poor shape.
Afghan National Police recruits swear an oath of allegiance during a graduation ceremony. (Photo: U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace) An Afghan votes in the 2009 presidential election. (Photo: UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein) Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greeting his Afghan's counterpart Hamid Karzai, who visited Tehran in August. (Photo: Sajjad Safari, Mehr News Agency) Inauguration of a new Afghan National Police station in Kapisa province, November 2010. (Photo: French Army Captain Edouard Dupleix)
Children at a refugee camp near Sar-e Pol for Afghans recently returned from Iran, 2009. (Photo: UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein) Afghan civilians and members of the Afghan National Army unload ballot materials from an Mi-17 helicopter in Jaghuri, in preparation for the September 18 election. (Photo: ISAF/U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Joseph Swafford/released)
Villages such as this in Herat province have increasingly been infiltrated by the Taleban. (Photo:  Marius Arnesen) The Taleban have taken to disguising themselves as members of the army and police. Here, a real Afghan army soldier stands guard at a village meeting in Zabul province. (Photo: Isafmedia/Spc. Thomas Duval)
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	US army soldiers out on patrol in Wardak province's Tangi Valley.</p>
Villagers tend their fields in Kapisa province. (Photo: ISAF Public Affairs) President Karzai attending a NATO summit on Afghanistan, November 2010. (Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider) Herat has a lively media scene, but local journalists claim they are increasingly facing obstructions. (Photo: Todd Huffman)