http://www.shvoong.com/tags/afghan/rss.xml Summaries, Abstracts, Synopses Reviews, Notes & Short Essays on Afghan Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:38:00 GMT Summary for an article by support@shvoong.com - Afghan History - 1, In the 6th century BC the Achaemenian ruler Cyrus II the Great established his authority over the area. Darius I the Great consolidated Achaemenian ru http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/419399-afghan-history/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/419399-afghan-history/ Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:28:00 GMT Summary for an article by support@shvoong.com - Afghan History - 2, Under the Hephthalites and Sasanians, many of the Afghan princedoms were influenced by Hinduism. The Hindu kings (Shahi) were concentrated in the Kabu http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/419400-afghan-history/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/419400-afghan-history/ Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:32:00 GMT Summary for an article by support@shvoong.com - Last Afghan Empire, Periodic attempts were made to gain independence. In 1709 Mirwais Khan, a leader of the Hotak , led a successful rising against Gorgin Khan, the Persi http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/419403-afghan-empire/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/419403-afghan-empire/ Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:47:00 GMT Taliban fighters captured a district in mountainous southern Afghanistan, police said Tuesday, in the latest in an upsurge of militant strikes that ha http://www.shvoong.com/f/law-and-politics/1620170-taliban-capture-afghan-district-10/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/law-and-politics/1620170-taliban-capture-afghan-district-10/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:56:00 GMT Forget Renaissance Europe. The world’s first oil paintings go back nearly 14 centuries to murals in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan caves, a Japanese researcher http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/1754452-world-oil-paintings-afghan-caves/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/1754452-world-oil-paintings-afghan-caves/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:30:00 GMT Al-Qaida released Sunday on militant Websites a new video eulogy of its top Afghanistan strategist Abu Laithal-Libi, showing his corpse for the first http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/1777201-al-qaida-releases-video-showing/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/1777201-al-qaida-releases-video-showing/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:38:00 GMT Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - The Afghan - A Book Review, The Afghan – A book review Author : Fredrick Forsyth Book Type : Fiction Publishers : Bantam Press, Corgi Books – U.K. &nb http://www.shvoong.com/books/novel/1793404-afghan-book-review/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/books/novel/1793404-afghan-book-review/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:52:00 GMT About 57% of Afghan girls are married before the legal marriage age of 16; about 60-80% of marriages are forced. Many a time baby girls are promised http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/1892948-afghan-women-suffer/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/1892948-afghan-women-suffer/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:04:00 GMT Safia Amajan, the head of the Women's Affairs Ministry in the southern city of Kandahar, who had criticized the Taliban for then ill-treatment of wo http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/1892949-afghan-women-suffer/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/1892949-afghan-women-suffer/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:06:00 GMT Will Obama and his fellow countrymen ever accept that Taliban and Al Qaeda are different? So far, few seem to be interested in differences. http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/politics/1895899-afghan-lesson-taliban-jihadis/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/law-and-politics/politics/1895899-afghan-lesson-taliban-jihadis/ Thu, 07 May 2009 11:00:00 GMT