History of Balkh Province

Khorasan is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West and Central Asia that encompasses western and northern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

2001 prisoner uprising in Afghanistan

massacre in Afghanistan

Qala-i-Jangi (Dari/Pashto: ) is a 19th-century fortress located near Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. It is known for being the site of a bloody 2001 Taliban uprising named the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, in which at least 470 people were killed, including CIA agent Johnny "Mike" Spann. Qala-i-Jangi served as Northern Alliance warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum's military garrison during the opening stages of the war in Afghanistan (2001–2021).

minaret in Balkh, Afghanistan

massacre by Taliban in Afghanistan in 1998