Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

The nation's other recently announced treasure is the Hajigak iron ore mine, located 130 miles west of Kabul and is believed to hold an estimated 1. 8 billion to 2 billion metric tons of the mineral used to make steel.

The $ 35 billion New Kabul master plan, in which the city is expected to expand north towards Bagram Air Base.

It is expected to revitalize some of the most commercial and historic districts in the City of Kabul, which will contain numerous historic mosques and shrines as well as viable commercial activities among and within war-damaged buildings.

* 1979 – In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.

The Embassy of India is located in Kabul.

It is thought that his dynasty continued to rule in Kabul and Alexandria of the Caucasus until 70 BC when King Hermaeus was defeated by the Yuezhi.

In 1504 Babur, a descendant of Timur, arrived from what is now Uzbekistan and to the city of Kabul.

Located at the junction of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman valley, Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province.

It is linked by approximately of highway with Kabul to the west.

Jalalabad is connected by roads with Kabul and Peshawar in Pakistan.

Because of the many traffic accidents, the highway between the city of Jalalabad and Kabul is considered to be one of the most dangerous in the world.

Kabul ( Kābul ) (, ;, ;, ), also spelled Cabool, Caubul, Kabol, or Cabul, mostly in historical contexts, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

Kabul is the 5th fastest growing city in the world and the world's 64th largest city.

It is also the capital of Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan.

According to latest estimates, the population of the Kabul metropolitan area is over 4 million.

The Kabul International Airport is located about from the center of the city, next to the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood.

Bagram Airfield is about northeast of Kabul.

The word " Kubhā " is mentioned in Rigveda and the Avesta and appears to refer to the Kabul River.

Hsuan Tsang refers to the name as Kaofu in the 7th century AD, which is the appellation of one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who had migrated from across the Hindu Kush into the Kabul valley around the beginning of the Christian era.

One of Genghis Khan's grandson is thought to be named Kabul.

Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, a poet from Hindustan who visited at the time wrote: " Dine and drink in Kabul: it is mountain, desert, city, river and all else.

In December 2001, Kabul became the capital of the Afghan Transitional Administration, which transformed to the present Government of Afghanistan that is led by President Hamid Karzai.

The sovereignty over Andkhui, Shibarghan, Saripul and Maimana was in dispute between Bukhara and Kabul until settled by the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1873 in favour of the Afghan claim.

From that time Abdur Rahman was fairly seated on the throne at Kabul, and in the course of the next few years he consolidated his dominion over all Afghanistan, suppressing insurrections by a sharp and relentless use of his despotic authority.

He took over as President from 1992 until the Taliban's conquest of Kabul in 1996.

It was not until 1826 that the energetic Dost Mohammad Khan was able to exert sufficient control over his brothers to take over the throne in Kabul, where he proclaimed himself the Shah.

Major General Sir Frederick Roberts led the Kabul Field Force over the Shutargardan Pass into central Afghanistan, defeated the Afghan Army at Char Asiab on 6 October 1879 and occupied Kabul.

Jahangir would challenge the hegemonic claim over Afghanistan by the Safavid rulers with an eye on Kabul, Peshawar and Kandahar which were important centers of the central Asian trade system that northern India operated within.

In 1929 Ammanullah Khan left Kabul due to a local uprising orchestrated by Habibullah Kalakani and Ammanullah's brother, Nader Khan, took control over the nation.

In early 2002, a NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) was deployed in Kabul and from there they began taking over other parts of the country.

The Kabul metropolitan area has a population of over 3 million inhabitants these days.

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai ( 6 August 194727 September 1996 ), better known mononymously as Najibullah or Najib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the Mujahideen took over Kabul.

* 2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.

Carrying little or no luggage, and with small amounts of cash, almost all followed the same route, hitch-hiking across Europe to Athens and on to Istanbul, then by train through central Turkey via Erzurum, continuing by bus into Iran, via Tabriz and Tehran to Mashhad, across the Afghan border into Herat, through southern Afghanistan via Kandahar to Kabul, over the Khyber Pass into Pakistan, via Rawalpindi and Lahore to the Indian frontier.

The only city in Afghanistan with over a million residents is its capital, Kabul.

* From Phrada, Alexander the Great presses on up the valley of the Helmand River, through Arachosia, and over the mountains past the site of modern Kabul into the country of the Paropamisade, where he founds Alexandria by the Caucasus.

Karzai at the 2011 Afghan Independence Day in Kabul, which is held every year on 19 August to commemorate Afghanistan's independence from British Raj | British control over its foreign affairs.

He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul Jan about Afghanistan-and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003, a hunger strike to protest over beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.

After the main combat operations were over, the International Security Assistance Force ( ISAF ) was established in Kabul.

* Pakistan asked the United Nations for permission to travel to Afghanistan on September 16 to petition Kabul to turn over Osama bin Laden.

* A Pakistani delegation sent to Kabul, Afghanistan to convince the Taliban movement to hand over Osama bin Laden also visited the eight detained Shelter Now International workers on trial for spreading Christianity.

* Friday, November 14-Northern Alliance fighters took over Kabul, the Afghan capital, and then controlled virtually all the north of Afghanistan.