Afghanistan’s frontier remains the stage for regional ambitions from the “Great Game” to modern proxy wars. The ghosts of the past once again shake the region’s peace ...

Geography and a history of proxy politics have made Afghanistan an arena for others’ contests, undermining its stability.

Journalist and author Lyce Doucet discusses her new book with The World’s Host Marco Werman about Kabul’s iconic Hotel ...

The Battle of Takur Ghar began three days into Operation Anaconda—an attempt by thousands of U.S. and allied troops to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban left many surprised. To Ali Olomi, a historian of the Middle East and Islam at Penn State University, a key to understanding what is ...

When previously in power, the Taliban destroyed much of the Afghan culture. When Ali Karimi was young, he had to bury his books in the backyard. In 1996, when the Taliban first came to power after ...

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, ...

Order within any household endures only when an elder or guardian assumes responsibility for its affairs, guiding family ...

The lengthy and frequently violent history of relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan has once again reached a turning ...

Pakistan border as Afghan Minister Noorullah Noori warns Pakistan of severe consequences, citing history and recent clashes ...