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Gul Meena showed the scars on her face. After she ran away from an arranged marriage, her brother and uncle found her and attacked her with an ax. Credit Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times


Forced Child Marriage … an Afghan Tragedy

Forced Child Marriage … an Afghan Tragedy

Kabul – Afghanistan is a place where all too often a young girl’s dreams die. But not always. So it has been with three Afghan friends, whose unrelated cases were all so awful that they are painful to talk about even now that the three are young women, years...
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An Afghan police officer surveyed the damage from a truck bomb near several embassies in Kabul in May. The United States is redrawing the Green Zone to cover nearly all major ministries and Western compounds. Credit Andrew Quilty for The New York Times


US Expands Kabul Security Zone

US Expands Kabul Security Zone

Kabul- Soon, American Embassy employees in Kabul will no longer need to take a Chinook helicopter ride to cross the street to a military base less than 100 yards outside the present Green Zone security district. Instead, the boundaries of the Green Zone will be...