Afghanistan

• Afghanistan: a country study. (Online) Area handbook. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress; US Department of the Army, 1997)
  The electronic version of the "revised" handbook, with chapters on history, geography, economy, society & culture, and bibliography.
  
  
• Afghanistan Digital Library (New York University, New York)
  
  
• Afghanistan Law Project Documents (IDLO--International Development Law Organization, Rome, Italy)
  
  
• Afghanistan Legal Documents Exchange Center (in English, Dari and Pashtun)
  
  
• Afghanistan Maps (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas, Austin)
  
  
• Afghanistan Online -- Afghan politics (Pleasanton, California)
  
  
• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU):  independent research organisation whose mission is to conduct and facilitate action-oriented research and learning that informs and influences policy and practice.
  
  
• Afghanistan, the Taliban and the U.S.: Selected Internet Resources (University of California, Berkeley Library)
  
  
• Afghans: Their History and Culture. By Barbara Robson, Juliene Lipson; with Farid Younos and Mariam Mehdi. Culture profle (2002) (United States Refugee Program, The Cultural Orientation Project, Washington, DC)
  
  
• ALMISBAH--Database of Online Resources --via MENALIB--Middle East Virtual Library.
  
  
• Amnesty International on Afghanistan (New York and Washington, DC)
  
  
• Asia Source -- Asia Today on Afghanistan (The Asia Society, New York)
  • Women in Afghanistan (March 14, 2002)
  • Afghanistan: The Humanitarian Crisis (January 25, 2002)
  • Afghanistan's Economic Challenges (January 15, 2002)
  • War in Afghanistan (November 9, 2001)
  • Who are the Taliban? (September 21, 2001)
  
  
• United States CIA World Factbook (See United States below)
  
  
• Feminist Majority Foundation -- Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls (Arlington, Virgina)
  See especially: Research and data
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization: FAO Aquastat on Afghanistan (Rome, Italy)
  Water resources and use in agriculture and rural development.
  
  
• Human Rights Watch on Afghanistan (New York)
  Press releases, testimonies, and reports on human rights situation.
  
  
• INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict in Afghanistan (Conflict Data Service, Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity; University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK and the United Nations University)
  
  
• Institute for Afghan Studies (USA)
  
  
• "The Islamic Taliban Movement and the Dangers of Regional Assimilation" Nida'ul Islam. (Online); April-May 1997. (Islamic Youth Movement, Lakemba, Australia ; via Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC)
  
  
• Languages of Afghanistan. Ethnologue. (Online). (SIL International, Dallas, Texas)
  
  
• "The Making of Afghanistan". By Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books. (Online) ; vol. 48, no. 18 (November 15, 2001).
  
  
• MENALIB--Middle East Virtual Library: ALMISBAH--Database of Online Resources (The State- and University Library Saxony-Anhalt, Halle, Germany)
  --Search Almisbah for Afghanistan
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Report 2003 (Online): Indicators for Afghanistan (New York)
  
  
• USAID--United States Agency for International Development on Afghanistan
  
  
• United States. Central Intelligence Agency. The World FactBook: Afghanistan (Washington, DC)
  
  
• United States. Department of Commerce: Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force International Trade Administration (Washington, DC)
  
  
• United States. Department of State on Afghanistan (Washington, DC)
  • US Department of State. Afghanistan Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003  | 2004  | 2005  | 2006  | 2007 | 2008
    
    
  • US Department of State. Afghanistan Country Report on International Religious Freedom: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003  | 2004  | 2005  | 2006  | 2007  | 2008
  
  
• "Wither the Taliban?" (1999) (Ali A. Jalali and Lester W. Grau, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas ; and, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC)