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This category contains news coverage, special reports and other regularly updated information sources on the situation in Afghanistan, covering military actions, political conflicts, peacekeeping efforts and reconstruction. Sites and articles focusing on the media coverage and the work of journalists in Afghanistan are also listed in this category.

Resources in This Category

• First 'Internet War' Gives Americans Non-American Viewpoints

  http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/oct/22/first_internet_war/
  Anick Jesdanun discusses and lists websites giving Americans foreign viewpoints on the conflict in Afghanistan.

• Hope in a Ruined Land

  http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/international/20021008_JOURNAL08/
  Photojournal by Tyler Hicks for the New York Times, showing the country in summer 2002. Includes audio commentary, transcript and map.

• How Smart Was This Bomb?

  http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/nov/19/mondaymediasection.afghanistan
  Did the US mean to hit the Kabul offices of Al-Jazeera TV? Some journalists are convinced it was targeted for being on the 'wrong side'. A report by Matt Wells in the Guardian.

• Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Afghanistan

  http://www.iwpr.net/?apc_state=henparr
  Weekly reports on human rights and media issues, and information on the IWPR's efforts to train Afghan journalists. [Dari, English, Pashto]

• Journalists Fight "Hidden War" in Afghanistan

  http://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/apr/26/terrorismandthemedia.broadcasting1
  US military and Northern Alliance may have colluded to keep journalists away from areas in Afghanistan where special forces were operating. The Guardian, UK.

• Know Nothing About Afghanistan? Blame the Death of the Documentary

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/30/afghanistan.comment
  The audience is flooded with news, but the media reduce Afghans to either victims or warriors.

• MILNEWS.ca - CAN in Kandahar

  http://milnewstbay.pbworks.com/CANinKandahar
  News/opinion aggregator highlighting news and open source information about the Canadian deployment in Kandahar province, with some coverage of events in nearby Helmand and Oruzgan provinces.

• The Guardian - Why We Must Show the Dead

  http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/nov/19/mondaymediasection.afghanistan1
  Eamonn McCabe explains the reasons for publishing photographs of war's victims.

• The Iranian: Limbs of No Body

  http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/index.html
  Commentary by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, an Iranian film-maker who has produced two feature films on Afghanistan, on the reasons for the high mortality and emigration rates. Photo essay by Ali Khaligh.

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