An interactive map of Afghanistan, Project Athena is an archive to which veterans can upload photos, chronicling the war as ...

Rashid, Ahmed, Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008). Salt, Alexander, ...

In the summer of 2006, four and a half years after the invasion of Afghanistan, someone in the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division had a bright idea. In and of itself, this was nothing new. So ...

The former U.S. and Soviet air base has been a central location for empires for thousands of years. Does Trump truly ...

In an upcoming book, slated for release in October 2025, Paul D. Miller – a professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service – chronicles the ...

President Donald Trump, surrounded by family members of soldiers killed in Afghanistan at the attack at Abbey Gate, holds up a signed proclamation honoring the fourth anniversary of the attack, in the ...

During his 2012 re-election campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to "end the war in Afghanistan in 2014." As straightforward as that might sound, disentangling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ...

In 2022, after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban regained power, Afghans reported an average life satisfaction of 1.28 on a scale from 0 to 10—or from the worst possible life to ...

For decades, Afghanistan has remained a theatre of competing ambitions, interventions, and tragedies. Yet amid the churn of ...