Afghanistan: a country misunderstood, depressed by conflict, fighting for stability. A country, thought of as inhospitable, is in fact home ...
Afghanistan: a country misunderstood, depressed by conflict, fighting for stability. A country, thought of as inhospitable, is in fact home to some of the most hospitable people I have ever met. Yes, there has been war, their country has been torn, but they are a strong people, just like any other, searching for peace among this chaotic world.nnI went to Afghanistan in April of 2014 looking to see the real nature of this country. This is what I found.nnMusic: M83 - OutronnShot by Mikai and Armen KarlnEdited by Mikai Karl assisted by Angad ChawlannShot on a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera and a GH3. nSlider shots achieved using a Rhino Slider Carbon.nnSpecial thanks to all those who supported this trip, It would not have been possible without you. Less
www.billgentile.comnnWhile embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24thMEU) in Afghanistan in 2008, I made thie brief video of New...
www.billgentile.comnnWhile embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24thMEU) in Afghanistan in 2008, I made thie brief video of New York Times Photojournalist Tyler Hicks as he prepared and then transmitted images from one of the most unforgiving locales on earth to the Times photo desk in New York. At the time I met Tyler, I was working on a piece in Afghanistan's Helmand River Valley, along the border with Pakistan, for NOW on PBS. (Titled, "Afghanistan: The Forgotten War," the piece was nominated for a national Emmy Award.) I think the video of Tyler illustrates the technology that has revolutionized the craft of visual journalism. More importantly, it gives viewers a sense of how professional, articulate and dedicated some of the practitioners of our craft can be. Tyler Hicks is an extraordinarily talented photojournalist and a role model for all who want to devote themselves to the craft.nnI am an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker teaching at American University in Washington, DC. My career spans four decades, five continents and nearly every facet of journalism and mass communication, most especially visual communication, or visual storytelling. I am also the founder and director of American University’s Backpack Journalism Project, and author of the “Essential Video Journalism Field Manual.” In 2015, I engineered the School of Communication’s partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and am the driving force behind that initiative.nnSee www.billgentile.com Less
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Taliban militants have been gaining ground in Afghanistan's Jowzjan Province on the border with Turkmenistan. Ethnic Turkmen residents say t...
Taliban militants have been gaining ground in Afghanistan's Jowzjan Province on the border with Turkmenistan. Ethnic Turkmen residents say there are no government forces there to protect them, so they have persuaded a 65-year-old former warlord, Emir Allaberen Karyad, to come out of retirement and help fight the Taliban. Allaberen is now leading a militia of more than 70 fighters who are trying to keep control of their district and the Turkmen border. (Video by RFE/RL's Turkmen Service) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/afghanistan-turkmenistan-taliban-militia/26530416.html Less
A suicide bomber rocks a usually peaceful region in Afghanistan. Officials said the explosives-laden car killed at least 12, including six p...
A suicide bomber rocks a usually peaceful region in Afghanistan. Officials said the explosives-laden car killed at least 12, including six policemen, in the fiercely anti-Taliban Panjshir province. The mountainous northern province was an important rallying area for anti-Taliban forces that helped topple the Islamist group's government in 2001. Local officials said 30 civilians were wounded. Less
NOTE: PART MUTE In this remote mountain area of northern Afghanistan, a village should be here. The village, and more than 2,000 of its inha...
NOTE: PART MUTE In this remote mountain area of northern Afghanistan, a village should be here. The village, and more than 2,000 of its inhabitants, are reportedly trapped under the earth, after a landslide on Friday. It crushed hundreds of houses and damaged hundreds more, a police official said. The landslide happened as villagers were trying to recover their belongings follwoing a smaller slide that crashed into the village a few hours before. No one was reportedly hurt in that slide, but then the second deadly one hit. From Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama expressed his concern, and offered American support, to Afghanistan. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SAYING: "We are seeing reports of a devastating landslide on top of recent floods. Many people are reported missing. Rescue efforts are on their way. Just as the United States has stood with the people of Afghanistan through a difficult decade, we stand read Less
Video footage shows the aftermath of a devastating landslide in Afghanistan earlier today. Report by Lomasc. Like us on Facebook at http://w...
Video footage shows the aftermath of a devastating landslide in Afghanistan earlier today. Report by Lomasc. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn Less
Some 500 people have died in a landslide in northeastern Afghanistan, according to a police official.The incident occurred in the remote, mo...
Some 500 people have died in a landslide in northeastern Afghanistan, according to a police official.The incident occurred in the remote, mountainous province of Badakhshan. A spokesperson for the region’s local governor says around 2,100 people are trapped under the rubble.Three bodies have been recovered from the debris in Argo district and at least 100 people are reportedly being treated for injuries.Locals were attempting to recover their possessions after a smaller landslide – during which no one was hurt – had crashed into the village a few hours earlier. Less
Au moins 350 personnes ont été tuées dans la province du Badakhshan, au nord-est de l’Afghanistan, lors d’un glissement de terrain su...
Au moins 350 personnes ont été tuées dans la province du Badakhshan, au nord-est de l’Afghanistan, lors d’un glissement de terrain survenu vendredi à la suite de pluies torrentielles.Mais le bilan actuel des victimes, donné par la mission des Nations unies opérant dans le pays, pourrait augmenter de manière considérable. Car une source afghane évoque le nombre de 2 500 personnes prises au piège. Plus de mille familles vivent dans le village touché, a précisé un porte-parole du gouverneur local.Le cadre de cette catastrophe est une région pauvre et montagneuse frontalière du Tajikistan, de la Chine et du Pakistan. Less
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 2,000 are missing after a landslide smashed into a villa...
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 2,000 are missing after a landslide smashed into a village in a mountainous area of north Afghanistan on Friday (May 2), and rescue teams were struggling to reach the remote area. Villagers dug with their bare hands to try to find survivors under the mountain of mud, but officials said there was little hope of finding anyone alive given the scale of the disaster. Triggered by heavy rain, the side of a mountain collapsed into the village in Argo district at around 11 a.m. (0630 GMT) as people were trying to recover their belongings and livestock after a smaller landslip hit their homes a few hours earlier. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) put the number of fatalities at 350. Less
Au lendemain d'un glissement de terrain qui a entraîné la mort d'au moins 350 personnes et laissé plus de 2000 disparus, les premiers s...
Au lendemain d'un glissement de terrain qui a entraîné la mort d'au moins 350 personnes et laissé plus de 2000 disparus, les premiers secours arrivent aux survivants. D'après le gouvernement de cette région du nord de l'Afghanistan, 700 familles ont échappé à la coulée de boue. Elles ont tout perdu. Le glissement de terrain a été entraîné par des pluies torrentielles : ces pluies de printemps sont fréquentes dans le nord de l'Afghanistan. Less
Les secours fouillaient désespérément, samedi 3 mai, les tonnes de terre qui ont dévasté un village du nord-est de l'Afghanistan, aprè...
Les secours fouillaient désespérément, samedi 3 mai, les tonnes de terre qui ont dévasté un village du nord-est de l'Afghanistan, après des glissements de terrain ayant fait au moins 350 morts, mais les chances de retrouver des survivants s'amenuisaient, alors que 2.000 personnes étaient portées disparues. Durée: 00:41 Less
Rescuers in Afghanistan have ended their search, saying there is no hope of finding survivors of a double landslide that may have killed mor...
Rescuers in Afghanistan have ended their search, saying there is no hope of finding survivors of a double landslide that may have killed more than 2,000 villagers.The United Nations says the focus now is on helping the more than 4,000 people displaced by the disaster in northeastern Badakhshan province.Their main needs are water, medicine, food and emergency shelter,“I am one of the survivors who came out of the mud,” said one man, Jaan Mohammad.“Right now, we need tents so we can be sheltered from the rain. Around 700 homes are under threat of flooding and landslides. There are fears of flooding in the area because there are four valleys from where water can flow into here. If it does, the whole village will be under water.”Officials have also expressed concern that the unstable hillside above the disaster zone may cave in again, threatening the homeless as well as UN and local rescue teams working there.The number killed has been put at between a few hundred to well over 2,000 with information hard to come by in the remote, impoverished province, bordering Tajikistan.Triggered by torrential rain, part of a mountain collapsed on Friday morning as people were trying to recover their belongings after a smaller landslip a few hours earlier.The tragedy has transformed what once was a bustling village into a mass grave. Less
Afghanistan is holding a day of mourning for the victims of a double landslide that turned a northeastern village into a cemetery.The search...
Afghanistan is holding a day of mourning for the victims of a double landslide that turned a northeastern village into a cemetery.The search for survivors has been called off and the focus is on helping the injured and displaced.The provincial governor of Badakhshan said there was no hope for more than 2,000 people believed buried.However subsequent estimates have since suggested a much lower figure of several hundred for the number of dead and missing.Hundreds of homes were crushed when mud cascaded down from a hillside. As people rushed to the scene to help, many were then engulfed in a second landslide.“After the landslide happened, I came here along with my friends to rescue our relatives but we couldn’t rescue them. A huge number of people have been killed and a number of others are trapped under the mud,” said Mullah Abdul Aziz, a local resident. The UN has said its agencies are ready to help Afghan relief efforts for those who lost their homes, and to work to improve protection against natural disasters. Flooding and landslides are common in the springtime rainy season.The US and the EU have also said they are ready to send aid.The village of Ab Barik which lies in a poor mountainous region bordering Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. The Taliban have promised not to disrupt relief efforts in the area, in which their presence is limited. Less
Le bilan des victimes reste temporaire après les glissements de terrain meurtriers de vendredi en Afghanistan et l’attention se concentre...
Le bilan des victimes reste temporaire après les glissements de terrain meurtriers de vendredi en Afghanistan et l’attention se concentre sur les sinistrés qui sont démunis. Une liste de 300 morts a été confirmée, mais il reste des centaines de disparus. Le gouverneur de la province de Badakhshan, où s’est produit le drame, a avancé le chiffre de 2700 morts et disparus. Le nombre de déplacés s‘élève, lui, à 4 000.“Nous avons besoin de tentes pour nous abriter, indiquait un survivant. Environ 700 maisons sont menacées par les inondations et glissements de terrain. Nous craignons des inondations dans la zone parce qu’il y a quatre vallées par lesquelles l’eau peut arriver jusqu’ici. Le village tout entier pourrait se retrouver sous l’eau”.La catastrophe s’est produite dans le district d’Argo : après une semaine de pluies torrentielles et de fonte des neiges, un torrent de boue et de pierres a coulé le long d’une vallée encaissée touchant principalement le village d’Aab Bareek. Hier, les autorités ont renoncé à tout espoir de retrouver des survivants et ont annoncé la fin des recherches. La prise en charge des déplacés est devenue la priorité des autorités. L’Union européenne s’est dite hier prête à leur fournir de l’aide.Avec AFP et Reuters Less
Cette terre a semé la mort et la désolation en Afghanistan. Le pays tout entier est en deuil pour rendre hommage aux victimes d’un gigan...
Cette terre a semé la mort et la désolation en Afghanistan. Le pays tout entier est en deuil pour rendre hommage aux victimes d’un gigantesque glissement de terrain. La boue a enseveli vendredi une partie du village d’Aab Bareek faisant entre 300 et 2500 morts selon les sources. Des centaines de maisons sont détruites et 700 familles se retrouvent démunies.Les autorités afghanes n’ont plus d’espoir de retrouver des survivants. La priorité est maintenant d’aider les sinistrés. Tentes, médicaments et nourriture sont acheminés par avion. La communauté internationale attend le feu vert de Kaboul pour intervenir. Même les talibans assurent qu’ils ne menaceront pas la sécurité des secours. Less
Aid agencies are distributing food to families in northeastern Afghanistan. Hundreds of families have been displaced by devastating landslid...
Aid agencies are distributing food to families in northeastern Afghanistan. Hundreds of families have been displaced by devastating landslides that left hundreds more dead.For the men, women and children who survived, the future is uncertain. Food, medical care and shelter have been desperately needed.The World Food Programme (WFP) has brought in enough wheat, vegetable oil and pulses to feed seven hundred families for two months.“Some of them have lost their homes entirely, others simply can’t go back to them because it’s just too dangerous,” said Marcus Prior from the WFP Programme. “The important thing is today they are getting food assistance which will help them through the next few weeks as they seek to re-establish their lives,” he added.Local authorities say more than 2,000 people had been trapped under rock and mud up to 30 metres deep – and that they don’t expect survivors to be found. Less
Afghanistan's cricketing star is on the rise following qualification for the world cup last October. The side is full of confidence ahead of...
Afghanistan's cricketing star is on the rise following qualification for the world cup last October. The side is full of confidence ahead of its bow on the global stage in Australia and New Zealand next year. Duration: 02:23 Less
A KC-135R Stratotanker from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron air refuels A-10 Warthogs over the skies of Afghanistan in suppor...
A KC-135R Stratotanker from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron air refuels A-10 Warthogs over the skies of Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Less
A foreign convoy close to the U.S. embassy in Kabul was rocked by an explosion on Tuesday morning, with reports indicating that at least thr...
A foreign convoy close to the U.S. embassy in Kabul was rocked by an explosion on Tuesday morning, with reports indicating that at least three foreigners were killed and over a dozen others were injured in the blast. Emergency services rushed to the scene of the incident, finding cars decimated and debris strewn across the floor. The Taliban have claimed responsibility. Considered a secure part of the Afghan capital, the road in which the U.S. embassy resides is in close proximity to the Supreme Court and is connected to the city's airport. The attack comes at a time when Afghanistan is locked in an election dispute, with Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah accusing each other of fraud. #financial_support_div{ display:none; position: absolute; width:300px; height:180px; margin-left: -150px; margin-top: -70px; /*- half of width and height */ top:50%; left:50%; padding: 5px; opacity:0.9; filter:alpha(opacity=90); z-index:1000; background-color:#000; color: white; } .close_box{ background: gray; color:#fff; padding:1px 3px; display:inline; position:absolute; right:1px; margin-right: -13px; margin-top: -13px; border-radius:3px; cursor:pointer; border: 1px #000 solid; } $(document).on("click",".close_box",function(){ $(this).parent().fadeTo(300,0,function(){ $(this).remove(); }); }); Loading the player ... Less
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