History of being in Afghanistan. Ignoring the British lesson, the Soviet Union suffered the same fate when it tried to install a puppet leader in Afghanistan. In the 1990’s, ...

President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan brings to an end a 20-year chapter between the two countries. But there’s more to the history of US-Afghan relations.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday on the Army's history of the July 2008 Battle of Wanat in Afghanistan. Post reporter Greg Jaffe saw an early draft of that history in the summer of 2009, and ...

Sir Percy Sykes first visited Central Asia some fifty years ago. Since then he has devoted constant study to that remote but strategically important part of the world, where from time to time he has ...

Former President Donald Trump is speaking out about Afghanistan one year after the Taliban captured Kabul, calling it the most "humiliating event" in U.S. history.

Kevin Baker coined the latter phrase in a 2021 Politico article entitled “The Old Cliché About Afghanistan That Won’t Die”: a more dismal take on Afghanistan’s history and politics. Some people would ...

The first comprehensive, in-depth history of Canada's war in Afghanistan was quietly published last summer by a federal government printer. Canadians will have a hard time getting their hands on a ...

Afghanistan, hemmed in by mountains, has a long history of strong earthquakes, many in the rugged Hindu Kush region bordering Pakistan. Death tolls often rise when remote locations are hit, and ...