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LESVOS, Greece, Nov 20 (UNHCR) - Amena Yusufi, a 21-year-old woman from Afghanistan, stepped out of a medical tent on Lesvos' busy Moria reception and registration centre and called for the next ...

The English/Dari critical care manuals help with treatments at outposts such as Forward Operating Base Lightning near Gardez, Afghanistan. Military medical personnel have teamed with computer ...

Afghan boys take their lunch at a school in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2013. Pashto writing on the wall reads, “no entrance without permission,” it also names the cook, and on the bottom ...

Among the struggles involved in re-establishing life in a new country, some Afghan parents fear their children will lose the cultural and historical connections that come with speaking Dari. Qayoom ...

On the third Monday in a row that my husband and I delivered donated items to the International Rescue Committee office on Cross Creek Circle, we had an opportunity to meet some of the beautiful ...

The Taliban’s anti-Persian stance is rooted in their educational and cultural background, but also reflects a longstanding desire by successive Afghan governments to displace the Persian language.

When the company took over the Afghanistan language contract in late 2007, only 41 percent of linguists’ jobs were filled. Today 97 percent of the jobs are taken, he said. At Camp Leatherneck, four ...

The Afghanistan Journalists Center said that the media should be free to use the national and official languages or the native languages of the country. This statement was originally published on afjc ...