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The reason that so many died was that the earthquake was shallow, and its location was in the west of the country, which makes this a rare event for Afghanistan. [citation needed] The more active east experienced a 5.8 magnitude earthquake three weeks later, killing only two. [18]
The Safed Koh range, which includes the Tora Bora area, dominates the border area southeast of Kabul. Snow-covered Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan Snow-covered mountains in Paktia Province Important passes include the Unai Pass across the Safed Koh, the Kushan and Salang Passes through the Hindu Kush, and the Khyber Pass that connects ...
Massoud became the only leader to remain in Afghanistan and who was able to defend vast parts of his area against the Taliban. In the areas under his control, Massoud set up democratic institutions and signed the Women's Rights Declaration. [114] In the area of Massoud, women and girls did not have to wear the Afghan burqa.
American diplomats are escalating a charm offensive with Central Asian leaders this week as they work to secure a close-by spot to respond to any resurgence of outside militants in Afghanistan ...
Environmental issues in Afghanistan are monitored by the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA). [1] They predate the political turmoil of the past few decades. Forests have been depleted by centuries of grazing and farming , practices which have only increased with modern population growth.
The current turmoil in Afghanistan resulted from the Biden administration's immense failure to execute the US exit, Eurasia Group founder and political scientist Ian Bremmer tells Yahoo Finance in ...
A maximum slip of 2 m (6 ft 7 in) occurred at 2 km (1.2 mi) depth and the rupture was concentrated within a 10 km (6.2 mi) × 8 km (5.0 mi) area along the fault. The primary fault displayed strike-slip displacements while the three secondary structures displayed oblique-thrust or strike-slip displacements. [ 18 ]
Open-air burn pit at Forward Operating Base Sharana, Paktika, Afghanistan, in 2013. The ongoing environmental impacts of war in Afghanistan, from the 1979 beginning of the Soviet-Afghan War to the 2021 United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan, adversely affect the health of Afghan civilians and American veterans, infrastructure, the labour force, and social structures.