...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province on Sunday, local officials said on Monday.
Another person was maimed in the clash, the Herat governor's front man Jailani Farhad, said, adding that the two children were brothers and the maimed is their father.
He said the clash occurred in Azizabad area in Shindand district.
Jailani said it is not clear whether the victims bit the dust in security forces or the Taliban
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students...
's firing.
This comes after President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..ordered strict rules for Afghan forces to prevent civilian casualties in their operations.