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Isabelle WESSELINGH AFP

War with Pakistan halts school for Afghan border children

War with Pakistan halts school for Afghan border children

There are no children in the Afghan border village of Barikot, where the school has been smashed by shells and the playground sits deserted after weeks of war with Pakistan. Almost all of the 8,000 residents fled after the conflict erupted in late February, but AFP journalists travelled to

Afghans comb riverbed in search of gold dust

Afghans comb riverbed in search of gold dust

In the jagged Hindu Kush in eastern Afghanistan, hundreds of men dug into the rocky bed of the Kunar River searching for a few grams of gold dust as an alternative source of income. At the foot of imposing peaks, some still covered in snow in April, they toiled near

Afghan govt says 'around 400' killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul rehab centre

Afghan govt says 'around 400' killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul rehab centre

The Afghan government said on Tuesday that about 400 people were killed in a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in the capital, Kabul, in the deadliest attack in the recent violence between the two neighbours. Hundreds more were said to have been wounded at the facility, which