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

In 2005, a new show was launched on television in Afghanistan to find new musical talent – it was called Afghan Star and was inspired by formats like American Idol and the X-Factor. The programme came ...

"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.

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 ...

Nov. 16, 2006 — -- When American Nancy Hatch Dupree found out she had been dubbed "Afghanistan's grandmother," she "went into orbit," she said. The Afghans she worked with didn't understand her ...

August 15 holds a solemn place in the collective memory of the Afghan people as a symbol of state collapse, the onset of darkness, and the failure of the international conscience. On this day, a ...

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 ...

Luke Basso has been producing documentary short films on veterans and military history since he was in high school. He recently returned from Afghanistan and tells WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, November 14 (UNHCR) - The final results of Afghanistan's landmark parliamentary elections were only declared on Sunday, after several delays, but Shinkai Karokhail was already at ...