A Taliban official says that flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan have killed at ...

The Saur Revolution of 1978 is a ray of hope in these dark times, and proves that even in the most backward regions and most ...

An inside look at a paratrooper’s book, “Damn the Valley,” about a deployment to Afghanistan, and the effect it had on those ...

Zerka Malyar and her team sought to confront the Taliban on the critical issue of women’s rights.

Two recent books explore the moral impact that the withdrawal from Afghanistan had on those Afghans who worked with allied ...

igniting a Cold War-era insurgency that saw the United States fund and arm mujahideen fighters who drove Russian forces out a ...

Afghanistan’s rulers are pariahs on the global stage, largely because of their restrictions on women and girls. The economy ...

Once a poppy-growing country, war-torn Afghanistan has been gradually getting rid of drugs as the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) in a report confirmed that poppy cultivation in ...

Trying to pressure the Jewish state into ending its war on Hamas by appealing to America’s experience in Iraq and Afghanistan is breathtakingly cynical. Nikoui’s son was one of 13 American ...

After four decades of war, Afghanistan ranks among the nations least prepared to face extreme weather events, which scientists say are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change.

or the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq. Rarely does one consider locations like their favourite spot in town or the office block in the middle of the city centre. However, Civil War, directed by ...

Afghanistan then fell into civil war, and soon the hardline Taliban took power, ruling most of the country from 1996 until 2001. That year their decision to allow the Al Qaeda jihadist group safe ...