I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Afghanistan is a sore, but it has been so for all the years of Pakistan's existence. More importantly, we have lived through it and kept a decent face. The Soviets and the Americans came and occupied ...