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The article discusses the debt payment plans of a Kabul, Afghanistan refugee camp resident Taj Mohammad, which includes having his 6-year old daughter Naghma Mohammad marry his lender's son. An overview of the social conditions of Kabul's refugee camps as of April 1, 2013, particularly for women and girls, is provided.

The article reports on the loss of social life in Kabul, Afghanistan due to increasing terrorist attacks against foreigners and the use of helicopters in the movement of U.S. forces and embassy officials in the city.

The article reports on the attack launched by Taliban bombers in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 25, 2013, which killed three private guards.

The article reports on the explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 18, 2013 which injures politician Hajji Muhammad Mohaqeq, the apparent target of the attack, and kills three civilians.

The article reports on the two suicide bombing attacks in Afghanistan on June 10, 2013 such as at Kabul International Airport and at capital of Zabul Province.

The article reports on the changed focus of the international forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, under the leadership of General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., to prepare Afghan forces to resist the Taliban despite its political and economic issues.

The article reports on the handoff ceremony for the takeover of General Joseph F. Dunford for both the American and international military missions in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The article reports the statement of Afghanistan and Western officials that a political interference hampers the efforts to solve the fraud and public inquiry at Kabul Bank with President Hamid Karzai and his top aides in Kabul, Afgahnistan. It mentions a watchdog commission's report that Mr. Karzi's aides, calls in the prosecutors to tell who would be indicted and its charges. It states the names to be convicted which are founder Sherkhan Farnood and former chief executive Khalilullah Frozi.

The article focuses on Kroll's confidential forensic audit of Kabul Bank confirming the bank was a conceleed Ponzi scheme. The audit asserts that the bank was institutionalizing fraud where it reached into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Moreover, Kroll's investigators found 114 rubber stamps for fake firms used in forging legitimate documents.

The article reports that six Taliban prisoners were executed following an order from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. It states that the six prisoners who were hanged at the Pol-e-Charki prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. It mentions that the prisoners have been convicted of terrorist attacks including kidnappings, assassinations, and suicide bombings.

The article reports on a firefight in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed four children.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan Parliament voted Saturday to dismiss the two most powerful members of President Hamid Karzai's security team, a surprise move that could create new turmoil as the United States-led coalition prepares to leave the country. Lawmakers explained the move -- which would cast out the defense minister and the interior minister in the middle of a war -- as part of an effort to end the crippling corruption and cronyism endemic in the government. They also criticized the two ministers for failing to protect the country against recent cross-border rocket attacks from Pakistan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least nine Afghans and perhaps many more were forced out of their homes in rural Afghanistan and executed in what Afghan officials called an act of revenge by one ethnic group against another, underscoring the long shadow cast by the country's ethnic hatreds. The killing, which took place Wednesday in eastern Oruzgan Province, appears to have involved a Hazara commander who is said to have avenged the deaths of two fellow Hazaras by leading an armed group to nearby Pashtun villages and killing at least nine people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's powerful finance minister came under scrutiny on Wednesday when an Afghan television network broadcast copies of two of his bank account statements that showed sizable payments from businesses and individuals and transfers of money from those accounts to bank accounts in Canada. It is unclear for now whether the deposits and transfers were legitimate transactions, as Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal insists, or a red flag signaling malfeasance in one of the most critical ministries in terms of driving the country's future. The Finance Ministry oversees the Afghan budget, the collection of taxes, customs duties and the allocation of money to other ministries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan president released a sweeping set of proposed reforms late Thursday, including a number aimed at stemming the government's endemic corruption; the proposals touched every ministry, the attorney general's office and the Supreme Court. The document, which the president's spokesman Aimal Faizi described in a Twitter message as a ''decree on administrative reforms,'' is similar to an executive order and in theory must be complied with by all organs of government. However, Parliament can review it, and many of the provisions are vague, leaving unclear the timetable for compliance and how some of the measures would be financed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Local officials in western Afghanistan reported Tuesday that a low-level police commander had switched sides with his men and gone to fight for the Taliban, and an American engineer was reported killed in an area less than 50 miles from the Afghan capital. The apparent defection occurred in the Bala Baluk district of Farah Province in the far west part of the country, where the Taliban have been active. The province borders the Taliban heartland of Helmand Province and the largely lawless Ghor Province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Twenty-one criminal indictments in the huge Kabul Bank fraud case have been sent to a special tribunal at the urging of President Hamid Karzai, including that of the bank's chairman and chief executive, Afghan officials said this weekend. In a separate case, Mr. Karzai called for the disarming of a unit of the American-backed Afghan Local Police, whose members are accused in the rape and abuse of an 18-year-old woman in the northern province of Kunduz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Four aid workers, including two women, who were abducted May 22 were freed early Saturday in a NATO rescue operation in northern Afghanistan, according to a NATO spokesman and a Swiss-based aid organization, Medair. Captured by insurgents while returning from a visit to a nutrition and hygiene project in the remote mountainous region of Badakhshan Province, the group included two Afghans who worked with the aid organization. The area is so remote that it can be reached only on horseback, and the four were riding back when they were abducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Civilian casualties in Afghanistan dropped significantly in the first four months of 2012, and a smaller proportion of the deaths was attributed to coalition and Afghan forces compared with a year earlier, the United Nations director in the country said Wednesday. At a news conference, Jan Kubis, the United Nations special representative to Afghanistan, said 579 civilian deaths and 1,216 civilian injuries had been recorded in the first four months of 2012. The combined figures represent a 21 percent reduction from the same period last year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The leading American diplomat in Afghanistan, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, will leave his post this summer for health reasons after serving here less than a year, a State Department official said Tuesday. His departure comes as the American-Afghan relationship enters a new stage, with thousands of American troops beginning to come home and the Afghans taking on increasing responsibility not only for security but also for governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- There are few certainties for Afghanistan as the NATO troop withdrawal moves into high gear, but one of them is this: the Continental Europeans have a grimmer prognosis for what can be accomplished than do their American and British counterparts. As they assess Afghanistan, the Europeans see an economic depression looming as Western aid and military spending evaporate; corruption, already endemic, is escalating dangerously as Afghan power brokers milk the war economy for every last penny before it dries up; security remains elusive -- not only because of the Taliban, but also because ethnically based militias are reactivating across large parts of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The moment that President Obama chose to visit Afghanistan for the first time in 17 months was a rare chance for him to make the most of a brief window when relations between the two governments are improving after months of crisis, and when the likely fallout of the coming NATO withdrawal is still months away. In the background, however, lurk a host of concerns about how things could go once the bulk of American troops leave and the pipeline of foreign aid slows to a trickle, which is expected to happen by the end of 2014. Both will increase the country's already deep sense of precariousness. And there is concern, too, about whether what once were cornerstone American goals in Afghanistan -- establishing reliable security forces, hobbling the insurgency, curbing endemic corruption, securing enduring rights for women and minorities -- are now unrealistic given the looming deadline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- After months of negotiations, the United States and Afghanistan completed drafts of a strategic partnership agreement on Sunday that pledges American support for Afghanistan for 10 years after the withdrawal of combat troops at the end of 2014. The agreement, whose text was not released, represents an important moment when the United States begins the transition from being the predominant foreign force in Afghanistan to serving a more traditional role of supportive ally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's intelligence agency, which has come under fire from Afghans for failing to detect multiple attacks here last weekend, said Saturday that it had apprehended militants plotting to kill one of the country's vice presidents and another group smuggling tons of explosives into the capital hidden in a truck of potatoes. In both plots the evidence pointed toward planners in Pakistan, the agency said, and in the case of the plan to assassinate Karim Khalili, the country's second vice president, the would-be attackers were linked to the Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based criminal network, according to their own confessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The complex attacks that immobilized much of Kabul and touched the main cities of three eastern Afghan provinces ended Monday morning with 39 of the attackers killed, 16 of them in Kabul, according to senior Afghan officials. Life slowly returned to normal in the shaken capital as residents of Kabul ventured out on foot and in cars. Those passing by the unfinished buildings commandeered by the insurgents near Parliament and Embassy Quarter slowed their cars and craned their necks to see the top floors where much of Sunday's violent drama unfolded, stretching on into the early morning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a further sign that the insurgents' spring offensive is under way, suicide bombers struck in western and southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 16 people, according to Afghan officials in Herat and Helmand, where the attacks took place. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yusuf, claimed that Taliban fighters were responsible for the attack in Helmand, but even hours after the bombing in Herat said he had no information on it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Americans in Afghanistan are ''demons.'' They claim they burned Korans by mistake, but really those were ''Satanic acts that will never be forgiven by apologies.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Seeking to break an impasse on a broader strategic arrangement, the United States agreed Friday to greatly accelerate its transfer of imprisoned insurgents to Afghan government control, but will retain a veto over which ones can be released, American officials said. Gen. John R. Allen, the American military commander, and Abdul Rahim Wardak, the Afghan defense minister, signed the compromise agreement in what diplomats described as a breakthrough in negotiations over a long-term military partnership. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Rather than a respite after Afghanistan's frigid winter, the start of the spring thaw has brought deadly avalanches and insurgent attacks. It took a full day for news of a massive avalanche in the snowbound reaches of Badakhshan Province, in the shadow of the Hindu Kush mountains, to reach Faizabad, the provincial capital. The avalanche swept through the tiny village of Sherin Nazim on Monday, burying most of the houses in snow. Reports reaching Faizabad from the area said that so far at least 43 of the village's roughly 200 residents had been found dead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The prospects for a long-term American strategic partnership with Afghanistan appeared to be dimming over the weekend, as negotiations foundered despite a new American willingness to move up the transfer of detention centers to the Afghans to as soon as six months from now, Afghan and American officials said. The proposed timeline would be a substantial concession from an American negotiation position that even just weeks ago put off a transfer into the indefinite future, basing it on the success of training an Afghan guard force capable of running the complex American detention facilities. However, President Hamid Karzai has stated repeatedly that he wants an immediate transfer of all detainees to Afghan control. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- American and Afghan officials investigating the Koran-burning episode that has brought relations between the countries to a new low say that the destruction could have been headed off at several points along a chain of mishaps, poor judgments and ignored procedures, according to interviews over the past week. Even as Americans have raced to ease Afghan outrage over the burning, releasing information on Friday that American service members could face disciplinary action, accounts from more than a dozen Americans and Afghans involved in investigating the incineration laid out a complex string of events that will do little to assuage an Afghan public that in some quarters has called for deaths to avenge the sacrilege. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two suicide attackers detonated a car bomb at the entrance to a NATO air base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least nine Afghans, officials said. The explosion occurred at about 6:15 a.m. on Monday as workers arrived for their jobs at the Jalalabad Air Base. Witnesses described seeing damaged cars outside the base and said the area had been sealed off as helicopters flew overhead. It was the latest attack on a coalition installation since unrest erupted last week over the burning of several Korans at Bagram, the largest American air base in Afghanistan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two American officers were shot dead inside the Interior Ministry building here on Saturday, and NATO responded by immediately pulling all its advisers out of Afghan ministries in Kabul, in a deepening of the crisis over the American military's burning of Korans at a NATO military base. The order by the NATO commander, Gen. John R. Allen, came on the fifth day of virulent anti-American demonstrations across the country, and it was a clear sign of concern that the fury had reached deeply into even the Afghan security forces and ministries working most closely with the coalition. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The anger over the American military's burning of Korans this week claimed at least 10 more lives on Friday as rage continued to explode across the country and began to reverberate in international policy. Ten Afghan civilians protesting the Koran burnings died Friday, most of gunshot wounds, although one protester was trampled to death, bringing the death toll since Tuesday, when the violence started to 24, according to local officials and emergency room doctors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Armed with rocks, bricks, pistols and wooden sticks, protesters angry over the burning of Korans at the largest American base in Afghanistan this week took to the streets in demonstrations in a half-dozen provinces on Wednesday that left at least seven dead and many more injured. The fury does not appear likely to abate soon. Members of Parliament called on Afghans to take up arms against the American military, and Western officials said they feared that conservative mullahs might incite more violence at the weekly Friday Prayer, when a large number of people worship at mosques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan MY first winter here was cold and spare. It was 2001, a few weeks after the fall of the Taliban regime. I had been a foreign correspondent for barely six months, and never a war correspondent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CORRECTION APPENDED KABUL, Afghanistan -- The 6,000 refugees living in the Charahi Qambar camp did not object when American soldiers came by Saturday to deliver 1,100 blankets for the families there. Nor did they mention that the day before, an Afghan aid group, Aschiana, had also made a delivery of blankets, and was planning to come back on Sunday with clothing -- at least the third such donation in a few days, the others coming from businessmen. And two Afghan aid groups financed by the German government brought about $187,000 worth of charcoal, milk and hot water bottles on Sunday, while the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees planned to give each family three more blankets on Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan government officials who traveled to the snowbound village where seven children and a young adult reportedly were killed in a NATO airstrike this week said that the bombing was based on incorrect information. The officials said that after talking to local residents and seeing the area, they concluded that an informer had misled the French troops who control the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A record number of Afghan civilians were killed in the conflict here last year, the majority at the hands of the Taliban and other insurgent groups whose use of homemade bombs became more prevalent and whose suicide bombers killed more people each time, according to the annual United Nations report on civilian casualties. Although the number killed -- 3,021 civilians -- represented a relatively small 8 percent increase in casualties over 2010, it was the fifth straight year in which civilian casualties rose. The overall trend suggested that the fighting was worsening and that, for all the talk about peace efforts and a drastic increase in the number of insurgents that NATO had killed and captured, day-to-day dangers for Afghan civilians were rising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The new United Nations representative to Afghanistan urged Afghans on Wednesday to embrace an inclusive peace process in which all the elements of society would have a voice. Speaking to reporters for the first time since his arrival on Jan. 17, the new envoy, Jan Kubis, said that ''it should be an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned process, because it is about the country and the people of the country.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Some American-trained, Afghan local police officers have engaged in illegal taxation, carried weapons outside their villages and in some cases committed assault, but over all the NATO military leadership thinks they have been ''effective,'' according to a report issued late Thursday. The report, written by Brig. Gen. James R. Marrs of the United States Air Force, is a response to a highly critical study by Human Rights Watch released in September that detailed allegations of human rights abuses by the relatively new Afghan local police force and by irregular armed groups across the country. Of the 46 accusations of human rights abuses in the Human Rights Watch report, General Marrs found 7 credible and 15 partly credible. He determined that 10 allegations were not credible and that 14 could not be researched sufficiently to permit a conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed its displeasure to Afghanistan's ambassador to Iran over an American drone aircraft that Iran says flew deep into its airspace and crashed last week, a spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry said Sunday. According to Afghan officials, the drone was flown from the American and Afghan base at Shindand in western Herat Province. American officials have acknowledged the loss of an RQ-170, a C.I.A. stealth drone made by Lockheed Martin and designed to fly covert missions and collect information in hostile territory, but have declined to confirm or deny that it is the plane that Iran says it recovered. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Despite criticism from neighboring countries, threats from the Taliban and calls for a boycott from some political opponents, President Hamid Karzai has called a loya jirga, the traditional grand council of Afghan elders and leaders, in an attempt to gain popular support for a long-term partnership with the United States, Afghan officials and analysts say. Even before the jirga's opening, set for Wednesday, it is being clouded by doubt and confusion -- much of it sown by Mr. Karzai himself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An itinerant preacher who had been detained for 12 days by the Afghan intelligence service arrived at a hospital badly beaten, suffering from kidney failure, and slipping in and out of consciousness, said doctors at the hospital and local health clinic where he was treated Thursday. They said they were not sure he would survive. The man was admitted to the hospital in the eastern province of Khost on Wednesday morning, said the doctors, who requested anonymity because they feared retribution from local members of the intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In the two weeks since the leader of Afghanistan's peace process was assassinated, an intense power struggle has opened among the nation's ethnic groups -- and within them -- as well as among other powerful factions here, laying bare a crisis that is buffeting President Hamid Karzai from every side. Though the peace process had made little headway, the figure at the head of the High Council for Peace, Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former president, had given the body stature. He had also protected Mr. Karzai from the rival camps within his government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In his first public appearance since rushing back to Afghanistan after the assassination of the country's leading peace broker, a solemn President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that the Taliban had gained access to their target by wooing senior leaders with an audio CD suggesting that peace was within reach. Mr. Karzai's statement and an account from a former Taliban member who helped bring the bomber to the peace broker, Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former Afghan president who led the country's High Peace Council, painted a picture of a dark and complex plot that unfolded over four months to enable the assassin to move in on his target. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In the decrepit buildings that house Afghanistan's ministries, one office is always new: the minister's. It is also often where corrupt deals are done, incompetence often reigns and favoritism is the primary currency. It is just such a room that provides the setting for a new television show, ''The Ministry,'' that sends up the nepotism, payoffs and sheer incompetence that are commonplace in the Afghan government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban launched one of their most audacious surprise attacks on Thursday, sending a squad of at least seven suicide bombers into the capital of a relatively stable southern province with the aim of assassinating the provincial governor and an influential powerbroker. Neither was killed, but security and health officials said at least 21 civilians had died in the collateral mayhem, half of them children. The Taliban attack in the capital of Oruzgan Province, Tirin Kot, appeared to be carefully coordinated. It struck at the heart of Afghanistan's south just as the American-led NATO command is in the process of gradually handing over security responsibility to the Afghan government after nearly 10 years of war, and it raised new alarms about the government's capabilities when the foreign forces eventually leave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The only suspect arrested in the case of a woman mutilated for leaving her husband has been released, local Afghan officials and the woman's father said Monday, in a move that has angered human rights advocates and the woman's family. The suspect, Sulaiman, who like many Afghans has one name, was released with the knowledge of the governor in south-central Oruzgan Province, said the provincial attorney, Ghulam Farouq. Police officials had said that Mr. Sulaiman, the woman's father-in-law, had confessed to taking part in the mutilation in 2009, though Mr. Farouq said he had recently insisted he was innocent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters attacked and overran several Afghan border police posts on Wednesday, killing nearly two dozen police officers in a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan, according to the provincial governor. ''Twenty-three Afghan border police officers were martyred and seven others were wounded,'' said Jamaluddin Badar, governor of Nuristan Province, where the attack took place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]