After U. S. President Barack Obama announced the deployment of another 30, 000 soldiers in 2010 for a period of two years, Der Spiegel published images of the US soldiers who killed unarmed Afghan civilians.

On July 17, 2009, in an article published by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Dostum, recently reappointed to his government job by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, again described Doran's film as a " fake story ", saying that the whole number of prisoners of war captured by his troops was less than the number Doran's film claimed had been killed, and denying there could have been any abuse of prisoners.

In 1885 he was appointed professor in the Collège de France, and was sent to India in 1886 on a mission to collect the popular songs of the Afghans, a translation of which, with a valuable essay on the Afghan language and literature, he published on his return.

* Osama bin Laden published a statement to the Afghan Islamic Press that he was not responsible for the September 11th attacks.

In October 2002, a book on Khushal Khan Khattak, Khushal Khan, The Afghan Warrior Poet and Philosopher, has been published.

In 1966 he published the first issue of Khalq, a party newspaper, but it was closed down shortly afterwards by the Afghan Government.

The fighting concluded in August 1919 and Britain virtually dictated the terms of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, a temporary armistice that provided, on one somewhat ambiguous interpretation, for Afghan self-determination in foreign affairs.

During the ensuing conflict, the war-weary British relinquished their control over Afghan foreign affairs by signing the Treaty of Rawalpindi in August 1919.

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.

* August 3-Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer were arrested at the home of an Afghan family and accused of teaching Christianity.

These steps do not improve Afghanistan's relations with the Indian government, which is already looking with suspicion on some of its military activities ; so much so that in August Mr. Yunus, the secretary of the Afghan legation in London, thought it necessary to send a communication to The Times stating that the number of Afghanistan's aeroplanes was too small to cause any apprehension, and that the Russians engaged in the air service were employed as pilots or mechanics in the same way as any other Europeans.

A treaty ( amending the Treaty of Rawalpindi agreed originally in August 1919 ) between the Britain and Afghanistan is signed at Kabul, on the Afghan government giving written assurances that no Russian consulates will be permitted in the areas adjoining the Indian frontier.

Delhi was captured by Maratha army under Raghunath Rao in August 1757 defeating Afghan garrison in the Battle of Delhi.

The combined army of over 100, 000 regular troops had re-captured the former Mughal capital, Delhi, from an Afghan garrison in August 1760.

In Operation Mountain Viper, the United States Army and the Afghan National Army ( nearly 1000 in number ) worked together from August 30 to early September, 2003, to uncover hundreds of suspected Taliban rebels dug into the mountains of Daychopan district, Zabul province, Afghanistan.

* Afghan Elections Dossier-Ashraf Ghani, August 2009-Radio France Internationale

A child was beheaded in August 2012 and the local Afghan authorities refused to investigate out of fear for their safety.

* Abdul Ahad Mohmand-The First Afghan in Space ( August 29 to September 6, 1988 )

* August 3 – A Taliban-controlled Afghan Air Force MiG-21 forces an Airstan Ilyushin Il-76 carrying cargo to President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani to land at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The Third Anglo-Afghan War ( also referred to as the Third Afghan War ) began on 6 May 1919 and ended with an armistice on 8 August 1919.

Sayed Nabi Siddiqui is an Afghan police officer who alleges that in August 2003 he was stripped naked by U. S .- led coalition forces, and beaten and photographed at the U. S. base in Gardez.

" In August 2010 the coach of the Afghan team Kabir Khan announced that he was going to leave his post because of consistent interference by the board.

From May 2007 to August 2009 he was appointed as Afghan Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Recent humanitarian crises include the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ( Asian tsunami ), the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, Rwanda genocide, Sri Lankan civil war, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Afghan Civil War, Kivu Conflict, Darfur Conflict, Iraq War, May 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Cyclone Nargis and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

The city was soon besieged by Afghan rebels until a relief force, led by Major-General Roberts, arrived from the capital city, Kabul, on 31 August.

Afghan Independence Day is celebrated in Afghanistan on 19 August to commemorate the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919.

* Afghan Independence Day ( 19 August )

The history of the Afghan air service began on 22 August 1924 as the Afghan Air Force.

At Andkhoy, in Afghan Turkestan, Moorcroft was seized with fever, of which he died on the 27 August 1825, with Trebeck surviving him only a few days.

The Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 agreement in 2006 with China's ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide optical fiber cable network.

Afghan exports in 2006

On 28 January 2006, the Afghan president Hamid Karzai visited Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Marienborg, the summer residence of the Danish Prime Minister.

In November 2006, the Afghan Ministry of Communications signed a $ 64. 5 million US dollar deal with ZTE on the establishment of a countrywide fibre optical cable network to help improve telephone, internet, television and radio broadcast services not just in Kabul but throughout the country.

* 2006 — Afghan president Hamid Karzai said that he and the Pakistani president will jointly lead a loya jirga to end a dispute over border attacks.

On September 27, 2006, a RAWA member for the first time ( perhaps in the whole history of RAWA ) appeared on a round table debate on a local Afghan TV channel, TOLO TV.

On September 24, 2006, he met with Afghan president Hamid Karzai to discuss the NDP position.

In 2006, its national prominence was used by a group of 18 Afghan refugees seeking asylum, who occupied it for several days before being persuaded to leave without trouble.

In 2006 Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that " Iran and Pakistan and others are not fooling anyone.

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.

" Due to increasing instability, the project has essentially stalled ; construction of the Turkmen part was supposed to start in 2006, but the overall feasibility is questionable since the southern part of the Afghan section runs through territory which continues to be under de facto Taliban control.

In February 2006 he was the subject of a complaint from Paul Flynn MP after he mocked Mr Flynn's attitude towards the UK's Afghan Drug policy as being equivalent to:

In 2006, " at least 669 Afghan civilians were killed in at least 350 armed attacks, most of which appear to have been intentionally launched at civilians or civilian objects.

In the summer of 2006, Afghan officials were deciding on the timetable for the re-construction of the statues.

*" Afghan golden treasure on display ", from BBC News South Asia, December 6, 2006

* Afghan hijackers case 2006, in May 2006, a politically controversial decision regarding the treatment of 9 Afghan men who hijacked a plane to flee from the Taliban, caused widespread condemnation by many tabloid newspapers ( most notably The Sun ), the broadsheets and the leaders of both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party.

In 2006, Sakena Yacoobi was recognized for her foundation Afghan Institute of Learning, which aims to restore education and health programs.

On April 12, 2006, Atwah was reported by an anonymous Pakistani Cabinet minister to have been killed along with 6 other militants, by Pakistani forces in a helicopter gunship raid on the village of Naghar Kalai near the Afghan border.

On April 12, 2006, Atwah was reported by an anonymous Pakistani Cabinet minister to have been killed along with 6 other militants, by Pakistani forces in a helicopter gunship raid on the village of Naghar Kalai near the Afghan border.

Wecker pledged to return to Halberstadt in the summer of 2006, and eventually performed in Halberstadt on 17 June 2006, accompanied by fellow singer-songwriter Hannes Wader and Afghan percussionist Hakim Ludin.