Kesällä melkein kaikkialla on kuumaa, alankoalueilla kuten Iranin rajan läheisessä suorastaan tukalaa.
Atrocities were committed by individuals of the different factions while Kabul descended into lawlessness and chaos as described in reports by Human Rights Watch and the Afghanistan Justice Project.
Afganistan on pääasiassa ylänköalueella sijaitseva sisämaavaltio, ja noin kolme neljäsosaa maasta on vuoristoa.
The historical region extended, along the north, from the Amu Darya Oxus River westward to the Caspian Sea and, along the south, from the fringes of the central Iranian deserts eastward to the mountains of central Afghanistan.