1. Kabul resounded to the crack of Kalashnikov fire and a flood of artillery.

2. It was only a three-mile walk to Kabul from there.

3. The Wolf of Kabul bore down upon him.

4. Back in Kabul after living in exile in the United States since 1987, he wants to open a private bank.

5. The Soviet troops who invaded Kabul in 1979 took nothing away, and even repainted some exhibition rooms.

6. Kabul, the capital, is full of one-legged beggars on crutches who stepped in the wrong place.

7. Fighting in Kabul Fierce fighting between various groups raged in Kabul on Dec. 6-10.

8. In Kabul he had plans to work as a paediatrician.

9. After losing the battle for Kabul, Hekmatyar adopted a more conciliatory attitude towards the Peshawar peace plan.

10. In Maydan Shar on Aug. 17, 100 Kabul militiamen were reportedly killed in heavy fighting with mujaheddin forces.

11. The situation in Kabul was extremely confusing in the immediate aftermath of Najibullah's removal.

12. In late autumn Kabul was besieged by rebel forces, and Amanullah was eventually forced to abdicate.

13. As his aircraft reached Kabul on May 30 it was hit by a rocket, but landed safely.

14. A mujaheddin rocket attack on Kabul on Feb. 29 killed at least 21 people.

15. The looting of Kabul Museum may even have been masterminded by antique dealers in Peshawar.

16. Opposition leaders are denying any contact with the government in Kabul.

17. The rising plume of black smoke could be seen all over Kabul.

18. Gen. Khan Aqa, deputy head of state security, was killed by a car bomb in Kabul on Nov. 3.

19. The barrage was the most devastating in a series of recent rocket attacks on Kabul by the Western-backed mujahedin.

20. These people are afghans ... a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city, Kabul.

21. If any move is made by the army in the tribal areas, the result could be an alarm call to Kabul.

22. The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul.

23. According to reports by the Soviet news agency Tass, fighting in Kabul itself abated on March 7.

24. The discussions dealt not only with a Soviet withdrawal but with the structure of the government to remain behind in Kabul.

25. More than 30 people were reported killed and hundreds injured in Kabul on Aug. 13 following rocket attacks by mujaheddin forces.

26. And to the van of them, high upon a pure-bred white Arab stallion(sentence dictionary), the Wolf of Kabul.

27. His shirt and his wool-blend flare-leg pants were made to measure in Kabul.

28. With the ceasefire in operation, government troops attempted to restore order in Kabul by disarming mujaheddin fighters roaming the city.

29. The Pact would provide for the withdrawal of Soviet forces following the formation of a coalition government in Kabul.

30. Dissension between the Peshawar politicians and the resistance commanders brings glad tidings to Kabul.

1. Opposition leaders are denying any contact with the government in Kabul.

31. The Kabul regime responded by reinforcing the garrison's 3,000-4,000 regular troops and by launching a high-altitude bombing campaign.

32. Kabul, Afghanistan: A confectioner works in a factory.

33. A Shiite Muslim guards a checkpoint in Kabul.

34. Kabul, Afghanistan: A fortune teller listens to a woman as another awaits her turn. Fortune telling was banned under the Taliban regime.

35. The weekend attack in Kabul fits within that evolving strategy.

36. Afghans dance outside of the Sakhi Shrine on the occasion of Nowruz in Kabul on March 21.

37. Kabul residents, like Lema, who live close to these unfinished high-rises are also worried about their safety.

38. An Afghan woman in a burka crosses a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2004.

39. Sitting in a graveyard, Afghans watch the rising of the holy mace outside of Sakhi Shrine on the occasion of Nowruz, which means "new day, " in Kabul on March 21.

40. The Afghan election authorities have announced the results from 447 polling stations after fraud investigations. David Lowan reports from Kabul.

41. A bullet hole in a window frames a security guard outside an office building hit during a raid by NATO forces in Kabul.

42. He said in Kabul: "Whether those individuals acted legitimately or illegitimately in providing information to the Nato forces, their lives will be in danger."

43. An Afghan army soldier secures a road as a fuel truck burns outside Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009.

44. Eight-year old Akram plays marbles with his friends in south of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, in Nov. 2010.

45. And in the bazaars of Kabul, Mazar - i - Sharif and Herat the trade is brisk.

46. There are few Afghan or foreign forces in the area, except on the highway that connects Qalat, the capital of Zabul, to Kandahar in the south-west, and Ghazni and Kabul in the north.

47. A boy watches the Sakhi Shrine on the occasion of Nowruz in Kabul on March 21.

48. U.S. officials in Kabul downplayed the significance of Saturday's suicide attack and said it would have little impact on the military mission.

49. Meanwhile, in the capital, Kabul, police arrested three men they say were planning a suicide bombing.

50. Ramadan means brisk sales for food vendors in Kabul, Afghanistan.

51. If you were a kid living in the Wazir Akbar Khan section of Kabul, you knew about Assef and his famous stainless-steel brass knuckles, hopefully not through personal experience.

52. President Karzai told reporters in Kabul Monday that Iran has given his office up to $975,000 for government expenses.

53. The agriculture secretary toured a new factory in Kabul that produces fruit juice, describing it as a “significant step” toward Rahimi’s goal of reinvigorating agribusiness in the country.

54. Worse, the insurgents appear to be operating closer to Kabul.

55. Afghan International Transport Company: Wazir Akbar Khan Mena , POB 768 , Kabul.

56. TIME contacted both the Afghan Olympic Committee and the country's track-and-field association in Kabul, but neither knew where Andyar was.

57. He had a black patch over his right eye socket, a prosthetic left arm and a deformed right hand, the result of injuries from an explosives mishap during an old operation against the Soviets in Kabul.

58. Ten women volunteers work in Karzai's Precinct 8 office in Kabul.

59. Born in Kabul, the daughter of a high-ranking army officer, she moved to London with her family during the Russian occupation.

60. One day in a Kabul bookstore I found a collection of landays—"short ones"—the two-line poems the Pashtuns recite to each other at the village well or at wedding celebrations.

61. An Afghani beggar woman takes time for tea in the bleak surroundings of Kabul.

62. A dead Taliban fighter lies on the ground following clashes with Afghan security forces near the "National Consultive Peace Jirga" tent in Kabul on June 2, 2010.

63. The American flag flies again over our embassy in Kabul.

64. Afghanistan shuddering wood - plank Wall of Death during his traveling stunt show's stop in Kabul.

65. Another example of the way people think about time is the story of the man who came to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

66. After he was driven from Kabul in 1996, he became the nominal head of the Northern Alliance, mostly minority Tajiks and Uzbeks, who swept to power in Kabul after the Taliban's fall.

67. But it is not hearts and minds in Kabul and Kandahar that most preoccupy the PM now, but hearts and minds much closer to home.

68. "The Hazaras have now bought a lot of sheep and goats. It is a new phenomenon," complains Haji Naim Kuchi, the main Kuchi leader in Kabul.

69. At least 3 explosions rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul Monday morning with one blast occurring close to the country's presidential palace and central bank building.

70. This was the second big strike in Kabul this year.

71. One canvasser, Leeda Sadaat, convinced the manager of a Kabul hotel to switch allegiance from Mr. Ghani.

72. US embassy convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan was damaged by a bomb today.

73. But the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan smoulders on, and it remains an open question how long the feckless administration the West props up in Kabul will survive NATO's planned departure in 2014.

74. Afghans descend a mountain after watching the rising of holy mace in Sakhi Shrine on the occasion of Nowruz, a new year ceremony, in Kabul.

75. A watch vendor works within the confines of his hand-painted pushcart on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan.

76. From late March until mid-April, the FirstBattalion, 87th Infantry moved in waves through Germany, Kyrgyzstan and Kuwaitto a small airstrip about 150 miles north of Kabul.

77. There is media speculation in Washington that Obama may divert from his Asian trip to Kabul to confront Karzai.

78. An Afghan boy swings on the occasion of Nowruz, held at the Sakhi Shrine in Kabul on March 21.

79. This is partly due to the compulsion to keep the supply route for Western forces - which connects the Pakistani city of Peshawar with Kabul and passes through Nangarhar - safe.

80. The population of Kabul has expanded eight-fold, and streets ravaged by war are bustling with street markets.

81. He urged people to ignore the violence when he voted at a Kabul high school, dipping his index finger in the supposedly indelible ink and holding it up for the cameras.

82. International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, a spokesman for Jilei (Gregory Keeley) said it was unclear whether the two-star generals Fu Leer or alternates will leave his post in Afghanistan.

83. At least 27 people died in attacks on three government buildings in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.

84. An Afghan drug addict smokes heroin in a war-ruined building in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, June 26, 2007.

85. It also seems to have reached the Kabul juvenile detention centre where staff are trying to give the mix of criminals and would-be jihadists a proper education.

86. Afghan laborers install scaffolding on a building under construction in downtown Kabul in 2004.

87. A man waits to watch Bollywood film "Hathiyar" or Weapon, at the Ariana Cinema theater, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, November 25, 2009.

88. On July 20, 2010, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi attended and addressed the International Conference on Afghanistan in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.

89. An Afghan worker cuts firewood to light a brick kiln in Kabul.

90. This past spring, Mostafezi coordinated women's participation in Afghanistan's national assembly, or jirga, held in Kabul to discuss a national plan for reconciliation.

91. The United Nations said Thursday it is sending more than half of its foreign staff out of Afghanistan in response to the murder of five of its workers at a guesthouse in Kabul last week.

92. At about one o'clock in the afternoon here, a suicide car bomb exploded on the main road out of Kabul towards Jalalabad.

93. Auxerre also expect to sell Younes Kabul , the central defender, to Tottenham Hotspur for ￡8 million.

94. In an open- air shop in Kabul, a coppersmith fingers his prayer beads, as his tolerant eyes take the measure of writer - photographer Williams.

95. Aishya, an Afghan girl, watches a Nowruz ceremony at the Sakhi Shrine from a mountaintop near Kabul.

96. Afghan security personnel inspect the site of the suicide bomb attack in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, June 28, 2007.

97. PROCESSION IN KABUL: Afghan Shi'ite Muslims flagellated themselves with chains during an Ashura procession in Kabul Thursday.

98. Associated Press writers Rami al-Shaheibi in Libya and Deb Riechmann in Kabul contributed to this report.

99. A city of northwest Afghanistan on the Hari Rud east of Kabul.

100. It would be extremely difficult for a senior Taliban member to get to Kabul without being killed or captured if ISAF were not witting, and ISAF is witting, " he said."

101. A commercial plane carrying 43 people crashed Monday morning while passing through bad weather over a high mountain range north of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

102. The Taliban in Afghanistan say they've obtained the government's security plan for the upcoming grand assembly of leaders, or loya jirga, in Kabul this week.

103. The major cities of Afghanistan are its capital Kabul, Herat, Jalalabad, Mazar-e Sharif and Kandahar.

104. Northern Alliance troops will pull out of Kabul, perhaps making way for a UN - sponsored, multi - national force.

105. Such comments are, on the face of it, nothing new for Mr Karzai, who previously invited the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar(sentence dictionary), to talks in Kabul.

106. Since the last Pakistan-Afghanistan jirga held in Kabul more than a year ago, relations between the two countries have worsened and the Taliban insurgency has strengthened.

107. Kabul , Afghanistan: Newly graduated Afghan army soldiers march during a graduation ceremony.

108. Earlier this year President Karzai himself was on hand for the opening of a new $25 million Coca-Cola bottling plant outside Kabul.

109. NDS spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said insurgents had accumulated weapons near Kabul in order to attack the airport.

110. Afghan National Army recruits take part in a training exercise on August 8,2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

111. The Kyrgyz complain about a lack of attention from Kabul. They say food, running water and electricity are scarce in the Pamirs.

112. An apple vendor central market in Kabul napped as shoppers looked at the selection available.

113. Samples received by the Central Laboratory in Kabul confirm C . diphtheriae.

114. Demonstrations were also held near the Danish diplomatic offices in Kabul.

115. Afghanistan's top intelligence officer is rejecting a U.S. estimate that only 30 percent of the country is under the control of the central government in Kabul.

116. But some diplomats in Kabul think it could be as low as 42%, whereas Dr Abdullah's is in the mid-thirties.