When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron ...

Afghanistan's Islamist Taliban rulers have banned education and most jobs for Afghan women, who are also barred from parks, gyms, and bathhouses. They are not supposed to leave their houses ...

A call from Helmand on February 29, 2020, underscored the shock and uncertainty felt in Afghanistan over the deal.

Discovered against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War, the Tillya Tepe treasure ... In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

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 ...

The end of the Cold War The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played major ...

In a country where there seems no limit to suffering, we saw a fresh level of desperation among the people of Badghis – Afghanistan's ... horribly weak and cold to the bone.

Trump thanked Pakistan for helping arrest an ISIS-K operative charged with supporting an Afghan bombing that killed 13 US ...

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early 1970s ... Then, on New Year's Day 1980, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a non-aligned nation. Castro's foreign policy received a crushing ...

The world experienced a bumpy ride in the final years of the Cold War, with post-Vietnam détente, the Star Wars rhetoric of the US, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the collapse of communism.