On Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, professor Elisabeth Leake of Tufts University gave the 148th Foreign Policy Seminar (FPS). It was open to attend both virtually via Zoom call and in person. “The FPS is a ...

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, ...

This collection consists of 22 oral histories documenting the history of the National Museum of Afghanistan during the career of Mr. Omara Khan Masoudi, director of the museum from 2001 to 2015. These ...

The area known today as Afghanistan has seen many invasions and rulers over the centuries, including Alexander the Great (circa 330 B.C.E.), Mahmud of Ghazna (11th century) and Genghis Khan (13th ...

A newly discovered site at Tepe Zargaran, an ancient jewelers' hub near the city of BalkhPhotograph for TIME by Adam Ferguson Roland Besenval is a magician. With a few words and expansive hand ...