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In 2013, Angelina Jolie funded a girls-only primary school outside Kabul for 200–300 students — with profits from her jewelry line, she told E! News.
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Seventeen civilians, including two women, were beheaded in Helmand after a late-night music and dance party — in a Taliban-controlled district.
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In July 2012, video circulated of Najiba, a 22-year-old Afghan woman in Parwan province, being publicly shot by a gunman as a crowd of men looked on.
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In Herat, Afghanistan, farmers swapped opium poppies for saffron — the world's priciest spice — at the cost of Taliban threats and kidnappings.
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About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female
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As Leon Panetta's plane landed at Camp Bastion on March 14, 2012, an Afghan contractor drove a stolen truck onto the runway in a suicide-bomb attempt.
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In July 2011, after the U.S. froze $800 million in aid, Pakistan's defense minister threatened to pull troops from the Afghan border.
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