Herat province borders Iran and boasts a 5, 000-year history known for art and scholarship.
In Herat, they met a young woman who lost her husband during the American bombing.
Ismail Khan, the ruler of Herat, has expressed concern over the fiery suicides in his fief.
Next would be Herat possibly the safest city in Afghanistan and Kandahar, with its 4, 000 American troops.
When bombing started near Herat, staff left their jobs at camps for displaced people.
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One of the dead in the bomb attack was a Sunni Iranian in exile in Herat.
The most senior is an ethnic Tajik with close links to Herat's former Tajik warlord-ruler, Ismail Khan.
Every day well-filled lorries make the journey to Herat from the Afghan border town of Islam Qila.
It is believed that the Taliban's governor of Herat hid the consulate's staff in his back yard.
Initially he built an eight-bedroom compound in Kabul and another, bigger residence in Herat, the country's third-largest city.
The new parliament building in Kabul and a new dam in Herat should be ready by next year.
In the meantime, women in Herat are still barred from riding taxis unaccompanied, or from learning to drive.
The stabilisation force will be deployed in five major cities -- Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e Sharif and Herat.
Two of the daughters in Herat were married when I first met them, and two, including Roya, were single.
The attack on the Iranian consulate on May 4th followed a bomb explosion in Herat that killed ten people.
In other developments, Iranian authorities have approved an aid convoy to Herat, from the northeastern Iranian town of Mashed.
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One Kabul man told me that some people killed in faraway Herat were "worth it to get rid of the Taliban".
Of the provinces, the southern province of Uruzgan was the worst performer while relatively secure provinces like Herat usually paid on time.
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In the Guzara district of Herat province in the west, gunmen on a motorbike fatally shot a female police officer, police said.
Three daughters lived abroad with their families and four remained in Herat.
It was 2003, a hot, windy summer in our birthplace Herat, Afghanistan.
He also exploited a series of battles between warlords in western Afghanistan, bringing about the ousting of Herat's troublesome warlord-governor, Ismail Khan.
The attack on two U.S. soldiers occurred in the city of Herat.
Of the women in Herat, all were either in school or were educated professionals who had equal authority and respect in the house.
We settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and I first returned in 2000 to Herat to report and to reconnect with my homeland.
From Buenos Aires to Herat, from Beirut to Cairo, from Baghdad to, now, Caracas, Iranian agents have done their best to disrupt and kill.
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The World Food Programme is still operating in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif, the relief agency's Web site said in a statement released Friday.
Supplies in the convoy include 2, 000 plastic tarpaulins and 10, 000 blankets from UNHCR for more than 12, 000 people in the displaced persons camp in Herat.
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Pajhwok reported brisk turnout in western Herat province, which borders Iran.
Significantly, several of the victims in Herat were teachers and nurses.
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