By Najeebullah Danish Aybak city, Samangan province - In June, Najibullah, a farmer from Larghan village, a collection of primitive, mud-walled compounds on the edges of Aybak city, brought an uncle and five cousins to the Samangan provincial hospital ...
When Hubatullah Fazely’s brother was taken to prison 30 years ago, he was 12 years old. Now a religious cleric, he is among thousands of people who lost track of their loved ones followed similar disappearances under Afghanistan’s ...
Shafiqa was 12 years old when she was made the wife of a man in Herat, during the rule of the Taliban. While her new husband was away working in Iran, she was accused of having an affair ...
As mujahideen groups fought with communists in the 1980s, they not only targeted military forces but civilians associated with the regime. School teachers and civil servants were not spared. They were kidnapped and tried by mujahideen special courts ...
Nazifa was walking home in Mazar-e-Sharif one day eight years ago when a rocket struck nearby and exploded, blinding her for life. She was 12 years old. Six months later, her brother was caught up in the front ...
Thirty years ago, Rahela lost two sisters to the mujahideen in Faryab Province, as they hunted out sympathizers of the communists. Her family was accused of working with the government and were targeted among teachers and activists in ...
Eighteen influential leaders from the tribes of northern Sar-e-Pul Provinces sought to make peace with Taliban authorities some 13 years ago. Locals there were accused of fighting alongside the Northern Alliance and many were forced from their homes. ...
Twenty-seven years ago, armed forces of the Soviet regime laid siege to Ada Farm in Nangarhar province. They arrested around 100 tribesmen, releasing only half of them and executing the others outside the village. Many years have passed, ...
When the regime of Dr. Najibullah fell in 1991, the capital turned into a war zone, as groups fought to fill the power vacuum. Civilians were swept up in the fighting, and many were killed for the ethnicity ...
Nineteen years ago, the worst fighting in Kabul was in Afshar District, where 300 people died in a single day. Many were forced from their homes as mujahideen warlords vied for control of the city. Now residents from ...
