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Source: CIA World Factbook 2006 Airspace: 250,000 square miles Recent Airspace Conflicts In 1994 the U.S. Federal Aviation Association issued a Special Federal Aviation Regulation that prohibited American aviators from flying within the territorial airspace of Afghanistan. In the regulation, it was explained that certain factions in the ongoing Afghan civil war had intentionally targeted […]https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/files/2008/08/wa_img_flyingkabul_map_af.gif