Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and ...

“We won't be able to go to Afghanistan either because I worked against the Taliban,” Bayat said. Jamshid Azizi, who also worked for U.S. forces during the nearly 20-year U.S.-led war in ...

Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, during a deployment as a Green Beret to Afghanistan’s Tagab Valley in 2006. He was an officer in the National Guard ...

The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after ...

Discovered against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War, the Tillya Tepe treasure ... In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

By then, Afghanistan had already been the staging ground for a violent confrontation of the Cold War, the arena for the adventurism of neighbouring Pakistan, and finally the showground for ...

He said that during the Cold War between the United States ... Therefore, instead of resorting to war with Afghanistan, diplomatic methods should be adopted to resolve the issues," he said.

Students may use this knowledge to postulate about what a war would mean for the Afghan people, short- and long-term. Afghanistan is under the microscope in the wake of the terrorist attacks on ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Afghanistan is a place, not a war. Taliban suicide bombings may dominate the news, but the sprawling Central Asian ...

US and Afghan forces have been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan for more than a decade. And the US and Russia are former Cold War enemies who are still mistrustful of each other. Afghans tired ...

The world experienced a bumpy ride in the final years of the Cold War, with post-Vietnam détente, the Star Wars rhetoric of the US, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the collapse of communism.