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Men should wear conservative suits and shoes.

If working in the country in a non-commercial capacity then wearing the traditional Afghan dress (long shirt and trousers) is best.

Women must always dress modestly and conservatively. The general rule is to show as little flesh from the neck downwards.

If working in business, women should wear knee-length, loose fitting business skirts with loose fitting professional trousers underneath. Wearing headscarf is advisable.

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Hospitality is an essential aspect of Afghan culture.

No matter who you are, if you visit a home you will be given the best the family has.

This relates back to the idea of gaining honour.

If you are invited for tea, which you inevitably will be, you will be offered snacks and your tea glass will be constantly filled. When you have had enough cover the glass with your hand and say "bas" (meaning 'enough').

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WILSON, Afghanistan - A Combined Task Force Strike Soldier working with the brigade's tactical communication teams, decided months ago he needed to do more than his normal tasks in the war effort in southern Afghanistan.

Sergeant George Ellis, a 30-year-old native of Pevely, Tenn. and a communications team leader with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, is a charismatic person who has made friends with southern Afghans. Despite the language barrier, Ellis bonded with a local village elder at the Zharay District Center in October and took it upon himself to help with the village's needs.

"My Family and I don't have much, but we got what we could," said Ellis. "These people here are no better than us, no worse than us, they're worse off than us. There's no reason why we can't give a little bit to them."

Ellis told his wife Kathleen of the Afghans poor condition and she then put the word out and had boxes filled with shirts, hats, shoes and soccer balls. With the help of his battle buddies and new Afghan friend, the items are distributed to the people.

"My wife gathered our children's spare clothes, she contacted her friends and had them help out, then mailed the boxes out here," said Ellis. "It's cold, it's gets wet and they don't have any shoes, they don't have any clothes and now it's here."

Once Ellis receives the care packages, he and colleagues go to the Zharay District Center and meet with Ellis' Afghan friend, the village elder. Together they organize and distribute the clothes, mostly to Afghan children.

"I started getting involved with the kids and I got to know each and everyone of the them and they are fantastic," said Ellis. "They're full of joy, they love to run and they love to play, just like normal kids."

The Zharay village elder at the district center also has children who are fond of Ellis. He and his Family are thankful for their American friend.

"Since Ellis came here, he's been helping us a lot and the people like him, my kids like him and I like him; he is my friend," said the village elder. "Ellis gave one of my daughters a dress and she likes it so much. We are so very thankful for his generosity."

Soldiers in Ellis' communication team assist with the distribution. To them he is a good leader at work and an inspiration as person.

"I hardly knew anything about my job, but Sergeant Ellis trained me and had me on the radios over and over until I got it; now I'm proficient with everything," said Pfc. Terrance Holmes, one of Ellis' Soldiers. "Sergeant Ellis and his wife saw people in need and helped them out, they should be blessed for that. He now makes me want to help other people."

Whether it's with his communication team or his Family, Ellis gives it his all. His actions set a good example for his colleagues, local Afghans and his Family.

"If I didn't try to do my best and if my wife and my kids didn't know that I'm helping, I wouldn't be a good father and I wouldn't be a good husband," said Ellis. "My Family is my motivation and the reason why I need to help the less fortunate."

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Sgt. Joe Padula, 2nd Brigade Combat Team

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Strike Soldier brings southern hospitality to Afghanistan

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE WILSON, Afghanistan - A Combined Task Force Strike Soldier working with the brigade's tactical communication teams, decided months ago he needed to do more than his normal tasks in the war effort in southern Afghanistan. Sergeant George Ellis, a 30-year-old native of Pevely, Tenn.

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The family is the single most important unit in the Afghan culture.
Men and women's roles are much more defined along traditional lines.
Women are generally responsible for household duties, where as men will be the bread winners. In the cities professional women do exist.
Families commonly arrange marriages for their children. Factors such as tribe, status, network, and wealth are the major factors forming any choice.
Families traditionally live together in the same walled compound, known as the kala. When a son gets married he and his wife begin their married lives in a room under the same roof.

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Abdul Isakzai died trying to thwart suicide bomber at police checkpoint

Hero 'tried to wrap his arms around attacker just before blast'

As the eldest of 10 children he was sole earner - now family are destitute

4,600 Afghan forces - 15 a day - have been killed fighting Taliban this year

Now police chief accuses British and U.S. of pulling out of conflict too early

He says: 'The Taliban are much stronger now than three years ago'

'We do not even have helicopters to collect dead, they lie rotting for a week'

The top police officer in Helmand has attacked Britain and America for destroying key equipment in their 'hurry' to leave Afghanistan - and accused western forces of leaving too soon.

As death rates for Afghan forces soar in the wake of the Nato withdrawal, Brigadier General Juma Gul Hirat said he had been dumped without proper equipment or a secure border.

'The foreign troops left this area in a hurry. They should have waited,' he said in an interview with MailOnline. 'They said they came here to finish the centres of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But Al Qaeda is not finished in Afghanistan.'

He spoke as the family of a police officer killed in a recent suicide attack revealed how his body was torn apart by the blast to highlight the 'hell' they are living through.

Abdul Satar Isakzai, a 19-year-old Afghan officer, was slain in a Taliban suicide bomb when an insurgent dressed as an officer drove up to a police compound three weeks ago.

'When they took his body, his arms and stomach were missing,' his mother told MailOnline, revealing that he had tried to stop the blast by wrapping his arms around the attacker who struck a police compound.

He was one of two officers and five others who died when the suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform targeted his checkpoint 555km south of capital Kabul.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing.

His family, who live in Helmand's capital Lashkar Gah, know that despite the pull-out of foreign forces, they are entering one of the deadliest phases of the war so far.

His mother and aunt are now alone in the house with teenage daughters and the children, a serious concern for them in light of the traditional values around the proper conduct of women in the Pashtun south.

'It is just us alone. We cannot even open the door to anyone if they knock,' the aunt said. They will only answer the door if Isakzai's 15-year-old cousin is present to open it.

Brigadier General Juma Gul Hirat said they are one of too many families who cannot be adequately protected. But he added that in addition to lacking vital equipment to retaliate against insurgents, his men are forced to leave their dead soldiers rotting in the sun for a week because they do not have a single helicopter to collect them.

'The Taliban is much stronger today than they were even three years ago,' he said.

'Why did [the foreign forces] destroy their bases? Why did they take hundreds of tanks to Pakistan? Why did they destroy their equipment, their new generators, their tunnels?

'I saw a $200,000 (£120,000) generator cut in two pieces. The only thing they left us were empty containers. There were once 186 bases of the British here. They destroyed most of them.

'I tried to stop them. There are questions to be asked and it's a question among the people of Afghanistan.

'Many of our casualties are troops who die from their wounds, lying in the dirt. But with the right equipment they could have lived. I tell you, these are problems that should not be here.'

A staggering 4,600 Afghan forces - up to 15 a day - have been killed fighting insurgents since the start of the year as they now battle to retain control without the full help of the Nato-led military

Brigadier General Juma Gul Hirat says casualties would be far lower if they had been left with better support.

'We see Arabs fighting here. In Sangin [district of Helmand], they were organising their soldiers in Arabic, Chechen, Punjabi. We could hear that through the radio.'

He added: 'For the presence and sacrifices of our international friends, we are very grateful. But you shouldn't leave your friends halfway.'

Not only are the ANSF insufficiently manned and equipped, Hirat said, they are also facing a tougher enemy.

'They are more organised, they have more weapons and more sophisticated weapons. Before, they might have had one PK machine gun between 100 of their men.

'Now they have one between 20 or even between five of them. The Taliban now are not the Taliban of yesterday.'

The dismantling of British bases and removal of modern equipment has left many in the Afghan forces devastated, Hirat said.

He added: 'The biggest loss that we face in Helmand is the IED [improvised explosive device].

'In the whole province of Helmand, we don't even have one IMV, the modern equipment you use to detect them.'

The Nato-led mission has had as a primary aim over the past 13 years to build the Afghan national security forces across the army and police.

But Hirat said they seemed more focused on the quantity, rather than the quality.

'In the end, they didn't even pay attention to that - to the quantity - because we do not have enough for what our needs are.

'Afghanistan needs a security force of at least 500,000. We are facing Al Qaeda and international terrorist organisations!' he said.

'They should have built the ANA and ANP to stand stronger on their own feet. They could have helped secure the border better.

'Of the 180km border we share with Pakistan, we don't even control five per cent. The Taliban are able to easily take their injured across the border for treatment.

'We don't have air support. With two helicopters in the district of Sangin, we could at least bring out our dead bodies.

'Our dead spend a week there, smelling. Those who were wounded have gotten worse because we didn't have any help to transfer them.'

Hirat said he did not think the British should never have left Afghanistan, adding that it was a 'positive step'.

However, his complaint is that there was not enough foresight to think of ANSF's needs before they withdrew, such as providing them the technology used to gather intelligence like the reconnaissance balloon and drones.

'Without these things, our casualties increase. When the casualties increase, morale is lost.

Sangin, a district north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, was where the British saw their greatest number of soldiers killed in their 13-year military involvement. Hirat said it is the same for ANSF.

After more than five months of fierce fighting between the Afghan forces and the insurgents in Sangin, ANSF holds only the town centre and the main road running through the district to Helmand's north.

Hirat equated the significance of Sangin to a battle for the country's capital, Kabul.

'There is no doubt that if Sangin falls to the Taliban then the Taliban will take control of Helmand's northern districts, and then the south.

'Then the provinces of Uruzgan and Kandahar will fall. And then the Taliban will take the south of Afghanistan.'

The road to Sangin is understood to be a key route for drug smugglers, another factor in its significance.

However, Hirat said it is not only the drug traders - nor for that matter any one group - solely supporting the Taliban fight to take the district from government control.

'Not even the [Pakistan intelligence arm] ISI has the budget to fund this war,' Hirat said.

He believes there are multiple players backing the insurgents, with Iran more involved since the Afghan government signed the Bilateral Security Agreement with the U.S. earlier this year allowing the Americans to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan.

When the Afghan forces have captured Taliban bases or searched Taliban corpses, they have found enormous amounts of ammunition - almost double what ANSF has - and items such as battery brands that cannot be purchased in Afghanistan.

'The whole region is involved,' Hirat said.

Despite international opinions regarding the Taliban as part of Afghanistan, the majority of Afghans despise them, Hirat said.

'The people of Afghanistan and the people of Helmand hate the Taliban. But the Taliban force them to co-operate.

'They are ruthless and they create fear. They use brutal tactics to force people to give them food and for their sons to join them. They take everything by force.'

He cited an example where the people of a northern district in Helmand called Baghran have been asking often for help to fight the Islamic militants under whose control they have been living for years.

Hirat said he does not know why the international forces left Afghanistan when they did, citing among other reasons perhaps the number of casualties they were suffering.

Nevertheless, he believes the war against insurgents in Afghanistan still belongs to the world.

'I am amazed when I see the fight in Iraq and Syria to stop ISIS. Afghanistan is no different. This is the world's fight,' Hirat said.

'When the U.S. was targeted 14 years ago [in the September 11 attacks], it was seen as the world's fight because the U.S. was targeted from here.

'So why not now? What has changed? I tell you: if Afghanistan becomes a safe haven for terrorism again, none of the world is safe.'

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Family of Afghan officer slain by Taliban reveal hell in Helmand

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Abdul Isakzai died trying to thwart suicide bomber at police checkpoint Hero 'tried to wrap his arms around attacker just before blast' As the eldest of 10 children he was sole earner - now family are destitute 4,600 Afghan forces - 15 a day - have been killed fighting Taliban this year Now police chief accuses British and U.S.

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Islam is practiced by the majority of Afghani's and governs much of their personal, political, economic and legal lives.

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Words are symbols. They are meaningless on their own yet they point to meaning. A word like religion does not point at something tangible. It points at an idea.

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The Khina Night is when women, on the day of their wedding, they where green before the Nikah ceremony, but then they go back to wearing white after word, but the men still where their suit.

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When a man and a woman wants to get married in Afghan culture, the guy sends their family over to the girls family for a marriage proposal. Once the parents of the girl, has accept the proposal, the girls side of the family gives chocolates to the eldest of the guys side of the family. The chocolates basically represents that the girls side of the family has accepted the proposal.

However, after the acceptance, the girls side of the family organises and engagement party for everyone to celebrate with the immediate family and friends. Thus, the engagement party also follows on the khina (henna) night, which is only ladies night where all the lady can dance. That the henna night, the bride usually wears the traditional afghan clothes, whereas, the groom wear Jami (which is traditional afghan pants and a shirt) with a lungy (traditional Afghan hear gear). As for the bride family and the groom's family, the girls usually wear the afghan traditional clothes and silver jewellery that goes with the traditional clothes. That evening of the henna night, it's celebrated with afghan dancing and the afghan traditional dance called the 'Attan'.

As part of the afghan tradition at the henna night, the bride closes her hand and the groom's mother will try to open her hand. If she does not manage to open the bride's hand, the bride will then receive an expensive gift from the groom's side of the family. Then, it's time for the khina where the bride and the groom's side applies it on the bridges hand.

Finally, after all that the wedding night arrives. While some people have the wedding during the day, whereas, with the Afghans they usually celebrate their weddings during the night. During the day they will celebrate a ceremony called the 'nikah' (religious ceremony). This is where the bride wears a green dress and accepts the bride accepts the groom to her lawful husband and the groom accepts the bride as his wife.

Although, after the Nikah the bride then wears a white dress and the grooms wear a suit. The bride and the grooms them goes to a beautiful location to take photos before going to the reception. When all the guests have arrived, the bride and grooms enter with the traditional afghan song for the bride and groom. Once they have arrived, that's when the party starts. Before the bride and groom cuts the cake, the sister of the bride side does a traditional afghan knife dance. While the sister of the bride is doing the knife dance she is also asking for money of the groom (brother in law). Hence, once her groom had given his sister in law the money, she gives the knife to the groom. Then, the groom and the bride gets to cut the cake.

After the end of the wedding, it is time for the bride to leave her mothers and fathers house. At the end of the wedding when the bride is saying bye before she actually leaves the brides brother ties a green cloth around her waist. After that has been done, the bride then goes with the groom to their house.

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When a man and a woman wants to get married in Afghan culture, the guy sends their family over to the girls family for a marriage proposal. Once the parents of the girl, has accept the proposal, the girls side of the family gives chocolates to the eldest of the guys side of the family.

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afghanistan national cricket team (cricket team)

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