Events from the year 2008inAfghanistan. President: Hamid Karzai First Vice President: Ahmad Zia Massoud Second Vice President: Karim Khalili Chief Justice:...
Afghanistan Blizzard was a fierce blizzard that struck Afghanistan on 10 January 2008. Temperatures fell to a low of −30 °C (−22 °F), with up to 180 centimetres...
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred...
opium inAfghanistan than is used for coca cultivation in Latin America. The country has been the world's leading illicit drug producer since 2001. In 2007...
Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun...
The population of Afghanistan is around 41 million as of 2023. The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multilingual society, reflecting its location...
The Afghan conflict (Pashto: دافغانستان جنګونه; Persian: درگیری افغانستان) refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistanin a near-continuous...
Women's rights inAfghanistan have oscillated back and forth depending on the time period as well as the regime in power. After King Amanullah Khan's...
Assistance Force (ISAF) operations, alongside Afghan National Army forces, continued against the Taliban through 2008. On April 27, President Karzai escaped...
also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a 2,611-kilometre (1,622 mi) international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia. The...
Prostitution is illegal inAfghanistan, with punishments ranging from 5 to 15 years of imprisonment. The country is deeply religious and one of the most...
have historically comprised a small community inAfghanistan. The total number of Christians inAfghanistan is currently estimated to be between 15,000...
presence inAfghanistan greatly bolstered the Northern Alliance, which had been locked in a losing fight with the Taliban during the Afghan Civil War...
Communications inAfghanistan is under the control of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). It has rapidly expanded after the...
economy of Afghanistan is listed as the 155th largest in the world in terms of nominal gross domestic product (GDP), and 137th largest in the world in terms...
Afghans (Persian/Dari: افغانها, romanized: Afghānha; Pashto: افغانان, romanized: Afghanan) or Afghan people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan...
Hinduism inAfghanistan is practiced by a tiny minority of Afghans, about 30-40 individuals as of 2021, who live mostly in the cities of Kabul and Jalalabad...
Afghanistan sent a team to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The team consisted of three men and one woman. Initially, Mehboba Ahdyar...
Canada's role in the Afghanistan War began in late 2001. Canada sent its first element of soldiers secretly in October 2001 from Joint Task Force 2, and...
2003 inAfghanistan. A list of notable incidents inAfghanistan during 2003 President: Hamid Karzai Vice President: Hedayat Amin Arsala Vice President:...
of Afghanistan and is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation. Founded in 1922, they played their first international game against Iran in Kabul...
The history of Afghanistan, preceding the establishment of the Emirate of Afghanistanin 1823 is shared with that of neighbouring Iran, central Asia and...
The history of the Jews inAfghanistan goes back at least 2,500 years. Ancient Iranian tradition suggests that Jews settled in Balkh, an erstwhile Zoroastrian...
The following lists events that happened during 2001 inAfghanistan. De facto head of state: Mohammed Omar (until 13 November) President: Burhanuddin Rabbani...
The Afghanistan national futsal team is controlled by the Afghanistan Football Federation, the governing body for futsal inAfghanistan and represents...
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), renamed the Republic of Afghanistanin 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's...