Afghanistan: November 14, 2003

Archives

The northern city of Mazar-I-Sharif is becoming the center of government control outside Kabul. Nearly a thousand national police and army troops are there, as well as over a hundred NATO peacekeepers (including 70 Gurkhas.) Northern Afghanistan is particularly troublesome because there are so many different ethnic and religious groups there, and tensions have always existed. 

X

ad

Help keep us a float!

Your support helps us keep our ship a float. We appreciate anyway you chose to help out. Visit us daily, subscribe, donate, and tell your friends.

You can support us in the following ways:

  1. Subscribe to our daily newsletter. We’ll send the news to your email box, and you don’t have to come to the site unless you want to read columns or see photos.
  2. You can contribute to the health of StrategyPage.
  3. Make sure you spread the word about us. Two ways to do that are to like us on Facebook and follow us on X.
Subscribe   Contribute   Close