The wars were in the future — but they weren't very far off. When the Soviets invaded less than two decades later, it would hasten Afghanistan's path towards becoming a very different country.

The last U.S. airstrike of the Afghanistan war, which mistakenly killed 10 civilians ... U.S. aerial operations up against the difficult geography of the country. "The distances here are ...

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 ...

“So many different diverse landscapes in one area ... increased because it’s not an active war zone anymore,” Khan said. He ...

Emeralds, rubies, marble, gold and lithium: the resources buried across Afghanistan’s rocky landscape are estimated to be worth a trillion dollars, according to US and UN assessments from 2010 and ...

Against the backdrop of America’s roiling political landscape and two raging foreign ... Chaudhary, co-chair of the Afghanistan War Commission. “Never before has the United States commissioned ...