Tribes have existed for millennia in the area that is present-day Afghanistan. They emerged over cen... serious blow to the insurgency and potentially create a means of stabilizing the long-suffering countr... ly anachronistic, sexist and corrupt — a system that further undermines the already extraordinarily difficult task of creating multiethnic, merit-based national institutions
ns of convicted murderers and adulterers and amputations of those found guilty of theft.
Men were re... urned to levels not seen since 2001.
Their retreat earlier this decade enabled them to limit their human and material losses and return with a vengeance.
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