Last month driving up Afghanistan’s magnificent Panjshir valley, you couldn’t help thinking if the resurgent Taliban would ever be able to break its defences, both natural and from the Tajik-dominated ...
KABUL, August 4 (UNHCR) - Refugees returning to their homes after years of war require not just peace and employment but a resource that is proving increasingly scarce in Afghanistan - water. In the ...
PANJSHIR, Afghanistan (AP) — On a recent sunny morning in northern Afghanistan, excited children and bemused policemen lined the banks of a fast-flowing river to watch a group of Europeans in ...
They are an imposing natural barrier - protection for the people living there. There is only one narrow road in, which winds its way between large rocky outcrops and the meandering Panjshir River.