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.

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.

Kabul is over 3, 500 years old ; many empires have long fought over the valley for its strategic location along the trade routes of South and Central Asia.

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 area had been under the rule of the Buddhist and then Hindu dynasty called the Kabul Shahis since the 5th century.

The region was ruled by Hindu and Buddhist dynasty called the Kabul Shahis since the 5th century.

The great Sanskrit grammarian and historian Pāṇini, who himself hailed from the nearby Shalatur, a village located near the confluence of the Kabul and Indus rivers, mentioned the names of tribes such as the Aprits ( identified with the modern Afridis ) and the Madhumants who inhabited the northwestern areas, in his Ashtadhyayi in the 5th century BC.

It is sometimes applied in a historical sense to the Buddhist inhabitants of the Peshawar Valley north of the Kabul River, who were driven thence about the 5th or 6th century C. E.

After 2002, the new geo-political dynamics and its subsequent business opportunities, rapid urban population growth and emergence of high unemployment, triggered the planning of urban extension towards the immediate north of Kabul, in the form of a new city.

The board brought together key stakeholders, including relevant government agencies, representation from private sector, urban specialists and economists, with cooperation from the government of Japan and French private sector, to prepare a master plan for the city in the context of Greater Kabul.

A number of high rise buildings are being planned and constructed across Kabul, as part of the attempt to modernize the city and create jobs.

Most Western countries, including the United States, maintained small diplomatic missions in the capital city of Kabul during the Soviet occupation.

The city serves as the nation's cultural and learning centre, situated above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River.

The Greco-Bactrians captured Kabul from the Mauryans in the early 2nd century BC, then lost the city to their subordinates in the Indo-Greek Kingdom around the mid-2nd century BC.

The Kabul Turks and Hindus built a huge defensive wall around the city to protect it from future invaders.

In one of them, Abdu-r Rahmán bin Shimar invaded Kabul in the late 7th century and managed to convert 12, 000 local inhabitants to Islam before abandoning the city.

Babur wished to be buried in Kabul whenever he died, a city he had always loved, but at first he was buried in Agra, Hindustan ( now India ).

The first European to visit Kabul was the 18th century English traveller George Foster, who described it as " the best and cleanest city in Asia ".

The Taliban abandoned Kabul and the United Front came to take control of the city.

The city of Kabul is one of the 15 districts of Kabul Province, which is further divided into 18 city districts or sectors.

Map showing public places in the city of Kabul

The city of Kabul represents about 80 percent of the total provincial population.