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Afghanistan
Digital Library. New York University.
Afghanistan Military Guide. Global Security.org.
FRONTLINE by PBS. Videos and documentaries on Afghan War.
Human Rights Watch. Background on Afghanistan by year.
The
Afghanistan Analyst. An online resource for researching
Afghanistan.
World Bank - Afghanistan.
World Defense Review. Afghanistan.
UK and
Afghanistan. Official info on UK's involvement in Afghanistan.
Country Guides and Profiles on Afghanistan
Afghanistan. Country Profile by Asia Society.
Afghanistan - A Country Study. Library of Congress, 1997.
Afghanistan Country Guide. By The Washington Post.
Afghanistan Country Profile. BBC News.
Afghanistan Guide. By National Geographic.
Profile: Afghanistan. Journal of Mine Action. James
Madison University.
Afghanistan. Journal of Mine Action, August 2005. JMU.
College and University Resources on Afghanistan War
Academic
Info. Directory of online resources for Afghanistan studies.
American Institute of Afghanistan Studies. Boston University.
East Carolina University. The War on Terrorism: Afghanistan and
the Taliban.
Harvard University. Afghanistan - Center for Middle Eastern
Studies.
University of California - Berkeley Library. Afghanistan and the
US: selected internet resources.
Informational Sites about Afghanistan
Afghan Legal History Project. Islamic Legal Studies Program at
Harvard.
Afghanistan. Electronic Mine Information Network - E-MINE.
Afghanistan. Asian Development Bank.
History of the War in Afghanistan
Afghanistan - Timeline. BBC News. Chronology of key
events.
War in Afghanistan (2001 - Present). Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
War
Report. Archives of reports about the war by Commonwealth
Institute.
Languages of Afghanistan
Languages of Afghanistan. Ethnologue - languages of the world.
Pashto Dictionary. Key phrases online by York University,
Canada.
Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Women's
Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan.
Women in Afghanistan. (internal web
page).
Mines in Afghanistan
The Journal of ERW and Mine Action.
Publications about Afghanistan
ISAF Mirror. Archives of a pub by International Security
Assistance Force.
Beyond the Afghan Trauma: Russia's Return to Afghanistan. The
Jamestown Foundation, August 11, 2009.
Documentaries about Afghanistan
Hunting Bin Laden. Public Broadcasting System (PBS) FRONTLINE.
Return of the Taliban. Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
FRONTLINE.
The War Briefing. Public Broadcasting System (PBS) FRONTLINE.
General Information
AfPak Hands Program.
A program developed in the 2009 timeframe by the DoD to "grow" a group of
military experts on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
COMISAF Advisory and Assistance Team
(CAAT). Established in 2009 as the Counterinsurgency Advisory
and Assistance Team to provide COMISAF with a 'directed telescope' that
would help him operationalize his intent for the counterinsurgency
campaign at the tactical level.
Intelligence Support to
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. A collection of news articles,
papers, and publications about intelligence activities and functions that
support the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan.
Weather Forecast for Afghanistan. An
internal page that will provide a variety of weather forecasts.
Peace Talks. With the departure of ISAF
troops on the horizon in 2014 the coalition is concerned that the Afghan
government will not be able to stand on its on against the insurgents.
With this in mind, attempts to come to an political settlement with the
Taliban are in motion. Read
news reports about
reconciliation with the Taliban. |