Benyamin Bariz

A number of painters and miniature artists in western Herat province say the lack of a proper market for their artwork has severely impacted their economic situation.

In the past month, at least 20 cases of tribal and family disputes have been resolved through the efforts of the Department of Promotion of Virtue, Prevention of Vice, and Hearing of Complaints in western Herat province.

Herat province governor Sheikh Maulvi Noor Ahmad Islamjar has met his Turkmenistan counterpart Begench Arazov during his visit to the country.

With illegal migration on the rise among jobless Afghan youth, a food factory in western Herat shows how local employment can be a powerful tool in reversing this dangerous trend.

With decreasing rainfall and a shortage of surface water in western Herat province, farmers have increasingly turned to solar-powered systems to extract groundwater for irrigation—an action that has raised concerns about a future water crisis.

In the central prison of western Herat province, a place often associated with “privations and imprisonment,” dozens of inmates are not only learning skills through technical and vocational training programmes but are also earning an income from their work.

Local officials in western Herat province say water from Salma dam was released into the Harirod river on Tuesday to meet the irrigation needs of agriculture lands, urging residents to stay away from the river.

One robber was killed and another arrested during a clash with security forces in western Herat province, an official said on Sunday.

For the first time, a permanent calligraphy and handwriting artworks exhibition has been inaugurated by the Information and Culture Department of western Herat province at the historic Ikhtiyaruddin fortress.

For the first time, a young man in western Herat has developed an online application to raise public awareness about non-communicable diseases including cancer and heart diseases.

Local officials in Herat say the western province has reached self-sufficiency in paint production.

More than 120 gas poisoning cases have been registered at the Zonal hospital in western Herat province during the past two months, an official said on Saturday.