Afghanistan’s modern history reveals why foreign powers repeatedly failed to impose lasting control. Geography, local ...

CNN — There's been no shortage of fact-based criticism aimed at the Biden administration's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. But some of the criticism from former Trump administration ...

"It's easy to enter Afghanistan, but it's very difficult to stay there," said Suleman Raja, professor at the University of Baluchistan, in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, near the Afghan border.

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.Long before the name Afghanistan appeared in written record, the region formed one of the ...

The Doha Agreement between the Taliban and the United States was signed on Saturday, February 29, 2020. I was supposed to be off that day, but I came to work anyway. How could I stay at home? History ...

Gravekeeper Aynullah Rahimi unlocks a door at the British Cemetery in the Sherpur neighbourhood of Kabul, home to generations of foreign fighters, explorers and ...

Although China has not yet officially recognized the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, it has been steadily deepening ties with them. Its efforts to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties have ...

pt. 1. Introduction. -- The land -- The people -- pt. 2. The historical background. -- Prehistory and Bronze Age civilisations -- Iron Age and the Iranians -- Alexander and the establishment of Greek ...