Surōbī ( ps, سروبي) is a town and the center of Surobi District in

Kabul Province Kabul (Persian: ), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The capital of the province is Kabul city, which is also Afghanistan's capital and largest city. The population of the Kabul Province is ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, located at the junction of the Kabul River and

Panjshir River The Panjshir River flows through the Panjshir Valley in northeastern Afghanistan, north of Kabul. Its main tributary is the Ghorband River which flows from the Parwan Province and joins the Panjshir River 10 km east of Charikar in Bagram Dis ...

. Surobi is located on at 998 m altitude between

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

and

Jalalabad Jalalabad (; Dari/ ps, جلال‌آباد, ) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jala ...

. The population was more than 22,000 people in 2007. It was the

Hezbi Islami Hezb-e-Islami (also ''Hezb-e Islami'', ''Hezb-i-Islami'', ''Hezbi-Islami'', ''Hezbi Islami''), lit. Islamic Party, was an Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally ...

's stronghold from 1987 to 1995. A Hezb-e-Islami commander called

Faryadi Zardad Faryadi Sarwar Zardad (also known as Zardad Khan and Commander Zardad) is an Afghan former warlord. In 2005 he was convicted in the United Kingdom (where he was living), for conspiring to take hostages and conspiring to torture during the 1990s in ...

had his headquarters there and tortured people. He was later prosecuted in

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for his crimes. Surobi was the only district in Kabul province not to be part of

ISAF ' ps, کمک او همکاري ' , allies = Afghanistan , opponents = Taliban Al-Qaeda , commander1 = , commander1_label = Commander , commander2 = , commander2_label = , commander3 = , command ...

's security transition.

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Image:Sorobi_tree.jpg Image:Sorobi_waterside.jpg, Kabul River

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Populated places in Kabul Province {{Kabul-geo-stub

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