One unique feature of Afghanistan's history, in addition to the ubiquity of foreign invasions that stretch back for 2600 years, is the manner in which one would-be conqueror after another found its ...

The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days. On Friday, the U.S.-led coalition will have ...

The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States has something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days. On Friday, the U.S.-led coalition will have been ...

The story of two superpower invasions of Afghanistan is all about the similarities that end up erasing the undeniable differences. As the Soviet Union prepared to leave Afghanistan in 1988, it stepped ...

Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrived in Kabul on January 4, 1988 to meet with Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah. The official press agency Tass blacked out news of the content of the ...

Afghan security police stand guard at a checkpoint in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul On February 8, 1988, then-President Mikhail Gorbachev announced ...

Is Hamid Karzai crazy? on the face of it, the Afghan President has said lots of odd, inflammatory and contradictory things. Over the past year, he has criticized the U.S., wondered whether its ...

Is Hamid Karzai crazy? on the face of it, the Afghan President has said lots of odd, inflammatory and contradictory things. Over the past year, he has criticized the U.S., wondered whether its ...

The Taliban took over Afghanistan Sunday after US forces withdrew and the Afghani government folded. Photos from more than two decades ago show what life was like under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001.

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