Hari Rud , river, c.700 mi (1,130 km) long, rising in the Kuh-e Baba range, central Afghanistan, and flowing west and then north into the steppes S of the Kara Kum desert in Turkmenistan; its lower course forms part of the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border. The river irrigates the fertile valley of Herat, NW Afghanistan, and ends in the Tejen oasis in Turkmenistan, a wheat, cotton, and cattle raising area. In Turkmenistan, the river is called Tejen; in ancient times it was known as the Arius.
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WAR ON TERROR: BEFORE THE BOMBS: MY BEAUTIFUL AFGHANISTAN; By LESLEY GARNER who lived in the country before the Soviet invasion.(News)
The Mirror (London, England); 11/3/2001; 1023 words;
... still offer shelter by the waters of the Hari Rud. In winter the children fly kites, and ... destroyed since then? As I desperately scan news bulletins, trying to reassemble the country ... see the translucent green waters of the Hari Rud, rippling with silver trout. I can see ... We camped by ...
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New life in a land of death
The Spectator; 9/4/2004; Sikorski, Radek; 1860 words;
... by the Soviets in 1987 I had long wanted to return to Kushk-e-Serwan, a small Afghan village at the narrower end of the Hari Rud river oasis, between the Hindu Kush and Iran. The first time I went there, I was travelling with Ismael Khan, the leader ...
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My beautiful Afghanistan Lesley Garner, who lived in Kabul in the late Seventies, recalls her carefree picnics in an 'indestructible' city
Evening Standard - London; 10/25/2001; LESLEY GARNER; 1872 words;
... 23 years. I don't recognise it in the news reports and official communiqus, this ... hats, the translucent green waters of the Hari Rud rippling with silver trout, the magical ... We camped by the green waters of the Hari Rud, on white beaches shaded with red rocks ...
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My beautiful Afghanistan; Lesley Garner, who lived in Kabul in the late Seventies, recalls her carefree picnics in an 'indestructible' city.
The Evening Standard (London, England); 10/25/2001; Garner, Lesley; 1875 words;
... 23 years. I don't recognise it in the news reports and official communiques, this ... hats, the translucent green waters of the Hari Rud rippling with silver trout, the magical ... We camped by the green waters of the Hari Rud, on white beaches shaded with red rocks ...
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DEMOCRACY IS NOT A POSTCARD
The Virginia Quarterly Review; 1/1/2008; Schmidle, Nicholas; 7098 words;
... on the one hand, and the stream of good news coming from Herat, on the other, I asked ... September 2004, he was sacked as governor. The news sparked riots in Herat. Khan's supporters ... Inside the Nau Bahar Hotel in Kabul, a TV news program blared at an ear-splitting volume ...
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Iran between east and west.(CAPSTONE ESSAY)
Journal of International Affairs; 3/22/2007; Bulliet, Richard W.; 5830 words;
... opportunity to present flowers to the government leaders in the first car. The mid-May mood of the international visitors and news reporters inside the commoners' cars was buoyant and festive. Unarmed Iranian soldiers stationed every few feet along the ... regions to the east and northeast where rivers draining the ...
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