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By Rebecca Murray

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 24, 2011/ Troy Media/ – When I first visited Afghanistan, not long after the fall of the Taliban, the physical signs of war were everywhere.

It's an often-cited myth that Afghanistan has repelled every foreign entity that has ever sought to enter its territory, a myth that journalist Christian Caryl has called the "mother of all clichés

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Ah, Afghanistan. Everything old is new again.

The key to lasting peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan is not in encouraging the culture of rewarding the insurgency through political deals, but in providing justice to the common Afghan

It’s been 15 years since award-winning journalist and human rights activist Sally Armstrong brought Canadians the story of Afghan women living under the Taliban in an article published in Homemaker

I keep a folder on my computer of attacks against girls' education in Afghanistan.

REGINA — An armoured vehicle rolls into an Afghanistan community and out jumps a woman with a helmet and rifle who is in command of a battalion of mostly male soldiers.

(CNN) -- We live in the Charlie Sheen era of wall-to-wall, "shock and awe" scandal coverage. And at the moment, Greg Mortenson is in the crosshairs.