The Guardian has excellent Flash graphics showing what is going on.

Interactive guides: attack on Afghanistan

Attacks on Afghanistan
A day-by-day guide to the US-led coalition's bombardment of Taliban and al-Qaida targets.

Ground offensive
How helicopters would play a crucial role

The targets
An interactive map showing possible targets for the allied forces in Afghanistan.

Aerial surveillance over Afghanistan
We explain how the coalition's air fleet is surveying Afghanistan.

Where are the Islamic nations?
A map illustrating the concentration of Muslims around the globe.

Refugees
As the US assault on Afghanistan started, an estimated 7.5m people were facing starvation following three years of drought. Where are they?

A must read written by a women who actually was in Afghanistan to get some actual data.

Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition

But the simultaneous campaigns of war and relief create a simplistic, and erroneous, impression of the impact the U.S. can hope to have in Afghanistan, particularly when it comes to living conditions and human rights, contends Dr. Lynn Amowitz, the Fireman Health and Human Rights Fellow for the organization Physicians for Human Rights. Amowitz, who studied Afghanistan during the last 18 months, says that country's gravest ills may be due in part to the Taliban, but the roots of the problems extend far deeper than a change of government or airdropped rations could quickly remedy. Meanwhile, she says, every day that the U.S. drops bombs on Afghanistan, a dire situation becomes much worse -- despite any consolation offered by pamphlets and peanut butter.
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Amowitz's report, "Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan," pinpoints the full extent of the Afghanistan crisis in almost 100 pages filled with grim statistics. The report details the country's general health disaster, but Amowitz's particular concern is the unique situation of women under the Taliban, who are forbidden to work, get an education or appear in public without wearing a burqa and being accompanied by a male escort. Amowitz looked at the physical and mental effects of these restrictions. As a result, she unearthed some unexpected trends, such as a nationwide concern over women's rights, and the extent to which Afghan women actually support seemingly oppressive dress codes.
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You can read Amowits's report here:

Women’s Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan

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