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August 5 – More than 160 people are killed in flash floods across Afghanistan and Pakistan. August 8 – A bomb explodes at a cemetery in Nangarhar Province, killing at least 14 people. August 11 – Three U.S. soldiers are killed in an attack in Paktia province. August 11 – Flash floods in Kabul province kill 22 people.
Afghanistan, [d] officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, [e] is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.It is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, [f] Iran to the west, Turkmenistan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, Tajikistan to the northeast, and China to the northeast and east.
Geography of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country located on the Iranian Plateau, [6] at the crossroads of Central Asia [7][8] and South Asia. [9][10] The country is the 40th largest in the world in size. Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, located in the Kabul Province.
Afghanistan - Location Map (2013) - AFG - UNOCHA.svg. English: Locator map of Afghanistan. Date. 2013. Source. English: Afghanistan Locator Map (ReliefWeb), ESRI, UNCS, The Times Atlas of the World. Author. English: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Other versions.
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism. On 7 October 2001, in response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced that airstrikes against Al-Qaeda and the ...
Names. This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan[94]in order to distinguish it from the country's various other wars,[95]notably the ongoing Afghan conflictof which it was a part,[96]and the Soviet–Afghan War.
Population, fertility rate and net reproduction rate, United Nations estimates. The population of Afghanistan is around 43.4 million as of 2024. [1] The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multilingual society, reflecting its location astride historic trade and invasion routes between Central Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia.
Pakistan 2,430 km. Tajikistan 1,206 km. Iran 936 km. Turkmenistan 744 km. Uzbekistan 137 km. China 76 km. Coastline: none. Population of Afghanistan: 39,864,082 (2021 estimate) – 36th most populous country [1] Area of Afghanistan: 652,860 square kilometres (252,070 sq mi) – 40th largest country.