HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — The value of Afghanistan's currency is tumbling, exacerbating an already severe economic crisis and deepening poverty in a country where more than half the population ...

The supposed success of COIN tactics in Iraq, twinned with the 2007 surge of 30,000 US troops, led to the claim that these successes could be replicated in Afghanistan. Indeed, by the fall of 2009 ...

Foreign exchange in Afghanistan is now traded mostly by money changers, called sarrafs. The currency of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has emerged as the best-performing currency in the world this ...

Afghani, the currency of conflict-ridden Afghanistan, has emerged as the best performing currency of the September quarter so far, with the surge being attributed to the massive dollar inflow in ...

The Afghan Central Bank is unable to replace its paper currency and as a result Afghani bills are crumbling along with the country’s economy. L.A. Times Middle East bureau chief Nabih Bulos ...

Simply sign up to the Currencies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Afghanistan’s currency was the best-performing in the world in the third quarter of this year, as foreign aid ...

US strategy in Afghanistan remains conflicted and lacks a clear path to success. The Obama Administration’s announcement of a surge and COIN strategy in 2009, followed by commencement of withdrawal ...

Afghans walk around a downtown currency exchange market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 22 (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) From ...

She emptied her savings, collected coins and dollar ... have been raising money for the past two years to help a former Seattle attorney, Julia Bolz, build schools in Afghanistan.