Afghanistan’s deepest struggle is not foreign invasion, but building an inclusive state across ethnic fault lines ...

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world. Long before the name Afghanistan appeared in written record, the region formed one of the ...

Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr. Quratal Ain Rana The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan is rooted not merely in contemporary politics ...

UNHCR sees the 2001 Afghan emergency fade into history The UN refugee agency has formally ended assistance in the last of the "new" camps set up in Pakistan to accommodate Afghan refugees fleeing the ...

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, ...

pt. 1. Introduction. -- The land -- The people -- pt. 2. The historical background. -- Prehistory and Bronze Age civilisations -- Iron Age and the Iranians -- Alexander and the establishment of Greek ...

Kabul/Islamabad: The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan has become a flashpoint, straining relations between the two neighbors. After recent peace talks in Istanbul ended without resolution, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, November 14 (UNHCR) - The final results of Afghanistan's landmark parliamentary elections were only declared on Sunday, after several delays, but Shinkai Karokhail was already at ...