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Articles in Afghanistan ( 385 )
385 Articles of interest in Afghanistan
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Shindand Air Base (IATA: OAH, ICAO: OASD) is located in the western part of Afghanistan in the Herat province, 7 miles northeast of the city of Sabzwar. The runway has a concrete surface. An all weather asphalt road connects it with the Kandahar–Her…
Kabul Medical University
Kabul Medical University (Persian: دانشگاه طب کابل Pashto: د کابل طبي پوهنتون) formerly known as Kabul Medical Institute) is located in Kabul, Afghanistan on the campus of Kabul University. The medical institution was initially maintained by collab…
Abdul Rahman Mosque
The Abdul Rahman Mosque (Dari: مسجد عبدالرحمان; Pashto: د عبدالرحمان جومات), also known as the Grand Mosque of Kabul, is one of the largest mosques in Afghanistan. It is located in one of Kabul's commercial areas called Deh Afghanan, near the Pasht…
Marjah
Marjah (also spelled Marjeh; Pashto/Persian: مارجه ) is an agricultural town in southern Afghanistan. It has a population between 80,000 - 125,000 spread across 80 - 125 square miles (320 km2), an area larger than Cleveland or Washington D.C. The to…
Jalalabad Airport
Jalalabad Airport (IATA: JAA, ICAO: OAJL) is located 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Jalalabad city in Afghanistan. This airport is currently being used only for military purposes and sometimes the United Nations' aircraft use this airport. It is occu…
Hajigak Pass
The Kotal e Hajigag Sanskrit (Persian: کوتل حاجيگگ Kotal Aajah gag or Persian: کوتل آجه گگ Persian: کوتل حاجيگک, hajji gak "little pilgrim") is a pass in Afghanistan.
Paghman
Paghman is a town in the hills near Afghanistan's capital of Kabul. It is the seat of the Paghman District which has a population of about 120,000 (2002 official UNHCR est.), of which 70% are Pashtun and 30% are Tajik. The Paghman District is situat…
Khanashin
Khanashin, or Khan Neshin, (other names: Khān Neshīn, Khannesin, Khan Nashin, Khān Nashīn, Khan Nashim, Khānnešīn) is a village located in the Reg District of Helmand Province, Afghanistan at (30.5494°N 63.7897°E) at 642 altitude. It is close to the…
Karz
Karz (Pashto: کرز) is a village in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, near the city of Kandahar.
2010 Afghanistan earthquake
The 2010 Afghanistan earthquake occurred on April 18 with a moment magnitude of 5.6. Eleven people were killed and more than 70 were injured. More than two thousand houses were destroyed.
Shkin, Paktika
Shkin (Pashto: شکين) is a scattered village in Barmal District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan located about a kilometer west of the newer, much larger, and border-straddling village and bazaar of Angur Ada. Angur Ada is controlled by the Pakistan F…
Qala-i-Jangi
Qala-i-Jangi (Dari/Pashto: قلعهِ جنگی) is a 19th-century fortress located near Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. It is known for being the site of a bloody 2001 Taliban uprising named the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, in which at least 470 people we…
Operation Achilles
Operation Achilles was a NATO operation, part of the war in Afghanistan. Its objective was to clear Helmand province of the Taliban. The operation began on March 6, 2007. The offensive is the largest NATO-based operation in Afghanistan to date.
Kabul Zoo
The Kabul Zoo is located in Kabul, Afghanistan, on the bank of the Kabul River.
Gawar-Bati language
Gawar-Bati is known in Chitral as Aranduyiwar, because it is spoken in Village Arandu, which is the last village in the bottom of Chitral, Pakistan and is also across the Kunar River from Berkot in Afghanistan.
Battle of Alasay
The Battle of Alasay, codenamed Operation Dinner Out, was a military operation carried out by French troops of the Chasseurs Alpins's 27e Battalion and the Afghan National Army (ANA) 1st Kandak (battalion) between 14 and 23 March 2009. Marine Embedd…
2010 Salang avalanches
The 2010 Salang avalanches consisted of a series of at least 36 avalanches that struck the southern approach to the Salang tunnel, north of Kabul.
Panjwayi District
Panjwayi (also spelled Panjwaye, Panjwaii, Panjway, Panjwa'i, or Panjwai) is a district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. It is widely considered the spiritual home of the Taliban and is located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Kandahar. The dis…
Pamir Airways Flight 112
Pamir Airways Flight 112 was a scheduled passenger flight from Kunduz to Kabul in Afghanistan that crashed on 17 May 2010.
Musa Qala
Musa Qala ('Fortress of Moses') is a town and the district center of Musa Qala District in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. It sits at (32.4433°N 64.7444°E) and at 1043 m altitude in the valley of Musa Qala River in the central western part of the dis…
Maymana
Maymana, Meymaneh or Maimana (Uzbaki, Pashto, Persian: میمنه) is the capital of Faryab province, northern Afghanistan, near the Turkmenistan border. It is approximately 400 km northwest of the Afghan capital Kabul.
Battle of Firebase Anaconda
The Battle of Firebase Anaconda was a military engagement that took place on August 8, 2007. A group of roughly 75 Afghan militants mounted a rare frontal assault on a United States' Firebase Anaconda, but were repulsed with approximately 20 fatalit…
Arghandab River
Arghandab is a river in Afghanistan, about 400 kilometers (250 mi) in length. It rises in the Hazarajat country north-west of Ghazni, and flows south-west falls into the Helmand 30 km (19 mi) below Girishk. In its lower course it is much used for ir…
Nad Ali District
Nad Ali or Nad-e Ali is a district in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Marja is an unincorporated agricultural district in Nad Ali. The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority.
Surobi, Kabul
The town of Surobi is the center of Surobi District, between Kabul and Jalalabad, in Kabul Province, Afghanistan. It is located on 34.5897°N 69.7625°E / 34.5897; 69.7625 at 998 m altitude in the valley of the Kabul River East from Kabul on the road…
Habibia High School
Habibia High School is a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, which has educated many of the former and current Afghan elite, including President Hamid Karzai and the country's most famous musician Ahmad Zahir.
2009 Kabul Indian embassy attack
The 2009 Kabul Indian embassy attack was a suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on 8 October 2009 at 8:30 am local time.
Kuran wa Munjan District
Kuran wa Munjan District is one of the 29 districts of Badakhshan Province in eastern Afghanistan. Located in the Hindu Kush mountains, the district is home to approximately 8,000 residents.
Gora Prai airstrike
The Gora Prai airstrike was an airstrike by the United States that resulted in the deaths of 11 paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps and 8 Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas. The attack is reported to have taken place lat…
Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul
Wazir Akbar Khan (وزیر اکبر خان) is a neighbourhood in northern Kabul, Afghanistan, named after the 19th century Afghan Emir Wazir Akbar Khan. It is one of the wealthiest parts in Kabul. Many foreign embassies are located there, including the Americ…
2007 Bagram Airfield bombing
The 2007 Bagram Airfield bombing was a suicide attack that killed up to 23 people and injured 20 more at the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, while Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, was visiting. The attack occurred inside one of …
2003 Lejay firefight
A skirmish occurred on the morning of February 10, 2003 outside of Lejay, a small village in the northern, mountainous part of Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The village is in the Baghran valley, and one of the few highways in Afghanistan passes thr…
Surkh Kotal
Surkh Kotal (Persian: سرخکوتل; Pashto: سور کوتل), also called Chashma-i Shir or Sar-i Chashma, is an ancient archaeological site located in the southern part of the region of Bactria, about 18 km north of the city of Puli Khumri, the capital of B…
Shindand, Herat
Shindand (Pashto: شين ډنډ) is a town and the center of the Shindand District, Herat Province, Afghanistan. It is located at (33.3036°N 62.14°E) at 1066 m altitude.
Maiwand
Maiwand is a village in Afghanistan within the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province.