Spencer Michels reports on what it will take to rebuild Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a devastated country. Ten years of Soviet occupation in the 1980s, civil war in the 1990s, five years of Taliban ...

President Joe Biden’s promise to remove US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 is his effort – each of the last four presidents has had one – to end America’s longest war.

Afghanistan had since the 1930s been a monarchy run by Muhammad Zahir Shah. In 1973, however, Zahir Shah was overthrown in a coup by his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan.

Background. When the Taliban collapsed in late 2001, a power vacuum was created in Afghanistan. With Taliban troops and officials gone from most villages and cities, ...

With England scheduled to play Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy on 26 February, BBC Sport looks at the background of the ...

Before civil war erupted in 1978, Afghanistan was a monarchy under Muhammad Zahir Shah, who had come to power in 1933. After World War II, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union used economic ...

Nov. 27 2003: Iraq -- Unannounced Thanksgiving Day visit to U.S. troops in Baghdad. He was on the ground for 2½ hours. March 1, 2006: Makes unannounced stop in Afghanistan on a trip to India and ...

Two decades in Afghanistan, written with the intimacy of a novel “Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation,” by Sune Engel Rasmussen, is told through the perspectives ...

With England scheduled to play Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy on 26 February, BBC Sport looks at the background of the debate over whether the match should go ahead.