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Hedvig Alexander sits in a quiet coffee shop steps from Toronto's bustling financial hub, a markedly different landscape from the war-ravaged nation where she spent seven years.

"I have been running this book store since the 1960s and kept it open for book lovers even during Taliban's brutal reign," Hajji Shah Mohammad, owner of the bookstore, told Xinhua in a recent interview.

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The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops leave by the end of next year.

QARA ZAGHAN: After scrambling up a steep mountainside in north Afghanistan, Morad Ali crouches beside a gap cut in the slope and touches some reddish-brown rock.

A little more than a decade later and with the Taliban long since overthrown, the prospects for women living in Afghanistan are brighter than ever, said U.S. Rep.

The Defence Minister, Jonathan Coleman, said the interpreters had found new jobs with the Norwegian military after the SAS left.

Solomon "Sully" Omar performs with the Afghan metal band District Unknown at the third annual Sound Central Festival in Kabul earlier this month.

After scrambling up a steep mountainside in north Afghanistan, Morad Ali crouches beside a gap cut in the slope and touches some reddish-brown rock.

The Afghan government has charged a tax bill of nearly $1bn to foreign firms working for the US military and government over the last five years, but there is no legal basis for many of the charges and levies, a US watchdog has found in a damning new report released on Tuesday.

MPs have sought assurances that UK troops serving longer tours in Afghanistan will not have their lives put at risk.

The music of Grammy -winning composer Omar Akram cannot easily be summed up in one neat little genre.

Brides from the Pal community attended a mass wedding during the Akshaya Tritiya festival in Bhopal, India, on Monday.

My most dangerous moment in Afghanistan came while riding my bike through the deserted streets of Kabul one evening.

Many Americans think we're winding down in Afghanistan by the end of next year, for better or for worse.

KABUL, Afghanistan A Taliban spokesman says four remaining Turks held by the militant group will be released shortly, without offering further details.

President Barack Obama has announced he will nominate former Ambassador Ryan Crocker to join the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the Voice of America and other government-supported international broadcast media.

Deputy Secretary of State Burns arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan May 11, 2013. The Deputy Secretary will lead U.S. participation at the second meeting of the U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Commission, created to advance cooperation and monitor progress made in advancing the U.S.-Afghanistan Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement.

The United States ruled out the possibility of having permanent military bases in Afghanistan, hours after Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an offer that could allow US to keep nine bases in the war-torn but strategic country post 2014 troop withdrawal.

IWPR's Afghanistan office is running a series of events and training courses in preparation for a groundbreaking conference that will design a framework for a standardised journalism curriculum for universities across the country.