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.
When bombing started near Herat, staff left their jobs at camps for displaced people.
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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.
In other developments, Iranian authorities have approved an aid convoy to Herat, from the northeastern Iranian town of Mashed.
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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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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.
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.
Mr White, who was hired to help guard Shindand airbase in the western Afghan province of Herat, was killed in 2007 by a rival Afghan security contractor.
Ismail Khan has accused his rival of allying himself with remnants of the ousted Taleban regime, while Amanullah Khan is pressing for Pashtun representation in Herat's government.
Warlords such as Ismail Khan, operating out of the western province of Herat, siphon off customs revenue at source, sending only a fraction of the receipts to Kabul.
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In February 2005 a Kam Air Boeing 737 from Herat crashed into mountains 20 miles east of Kabul as it approached in a blizzard, killing all 104 people onboard.
The Berlin agreements provide for commissions to supervise the elections, and these have been set up in the cities of Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Herat, Gardez, Konduz, Bamian and Ghazni.
Military positions around the city of Jalalabad and a Taleban military camp in Kandahar also came under attack, and strikes were reported on an airport near the western city of Herat.
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