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TALIBAN RECRUITS ARAB ACTIVISTS

The several thousand Arab fighters based in Afghanistan in recent years have found themselves the object of much bargaining now [...]

USSAMA BIN LADEN IN AFGHANISTAN

Contrary to "revelations" by the government-controlled Egyptian magazine Khoz al [...]

ABDUL RASHID DOSTUM

General Abdul Rashid Dostum is the new strongman in northern Afghanistan. Now based in Mazare Sharif, he controls Afghanistan's gateway [...]

BREAKING A MOSCOW-PEKING LINK?

A flurry of discreet diplomatic and intelligence activity around Afghanistan indicates that the West, and particularly the U.S., is seriously [...]

According to Melvyn Levitsky, American Assistant Secretary of State for [...]

WAITING FOR DRUG MONEY TRANSFERS

According to a United Nations report distributed in Pakistan in early December 1991, that year's harvest of opium in Afghanistan [...]