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As Taliban Settle In, Kabul’s Green Zone Comes Back to Life Walking down its streets a year ago was like wandering into the modern ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan.
KABUL, Afghanistan - "Ma'am! Ma'am! Excuse me ma'am!" the little boy said as he ran alongside me on the sidewalk. My fellow 230th Signal Company Soldiers and I were on our first mission outside ...
The planned expansion will take two years and will dramatically reshape Kabul, where 5 million people live. The U.S. military is also planning to deploy thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
If Afghanistan had enjoyed political and civil stability over the past ... ESA Sentinel 2 imagery used for greater Kabul map. Satellite image of Green Zone provided by ©2021 Maxar Technologies.
It has been dubbed Afghanistan's Green Zone: A pocket of paradise amid the bloody, conflict-ravaged country -- both a hidden gem and full of gems. The gems are world-class emeralds seemingly just ...
A powerful blast hit Kabul, Afghanistan, near the city's heavily fortified "Green Zone" on Tuesday. The "Green Zone" in Afghanistan's capital houses government buildings as well as foreign embassies.
Soon, U.S. Embassy employees in Kabul will no longer need to take a Chinook helicopter ride to cross the street to a military base less than 100 yards outside the present Green Zone security district.
KABUL (Reuters) -Kabul’s former diplomatic quarter fell silent on Monday as foreign missions were moved to the airport, leaving Taliban patrols in control of the fortified zone of concrete blast ...
There is a currently a proposal to establish a fortified region in Kabul to house diplomatic missions, and so better protect these from incidents of violence that continue to occur in Afghanistan ...