Courtesy Story | NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan | 03.21.2011
Not since the 1970s was there as large a turnout for a new year’s celebration as the one witnessed March 21 at the Khakrez District Center in Kandahar Province. More than 3,500 Afghans celebrated at the district center, coming from as far away as Kabul and Herat to ring in the Persian New Year, known to Afghans as “Nowruz.”...