They intervene into this civil war, are able to exploit it, and therefore establish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 1996-’97. The US invades after 9/11, without clear goals. The Taliban ...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — In recent years, the first snow falling on the jagged mountain peaks of Afghanistan has ushered in a seasonal slowdown in fighting between insurgents and the Western forces ...

But as long as the Cold War was the overriding preoccupation for the United States and expelling the foreign invaders fueled jihad, there would be no conflict resolution in Afghanistan. In 1986, with ...

Another project designed to draw Afghans closer to Central Asia is the AIRITOMFree Zone in Termez, which opened last year and ...

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan 25 years ago this month -- the first time since World War II that organized Soviet troops had been sent outside the bloc or Cuba. The fighting in Afghanistan ...

But a civil war in Afghanistan is a proxy war for the region, and unlike the early 90s, the stakes are higher. Pakistan and India have nuclear weapons. Iran might.

Afghan security forces arrive the site of a blast and gunfire between Taliban and Afghan forces in PD 6 in Kabul, Afghanistan (March 1, 2017). Credit: REUTERS/Omar Sobhani As Cold War politics ...

E ven in the context of war, attacking fleeing civilians is a depraved act. The Islamic State’s attack on Kabul’s airport during the American evacuation of Afghanistan, which killed nearly 200 ...

Will Afghanistan, which has been at war since 1978—thirty-four years, ... snapped the relationship cold. (Pakistan has yet to explain the presence of bin Laden on its soil.) ...

A longtime policy wonk and adviser to the U.N. and the U.S., Rubin spent decades deliberating upon best practices for saving Afghanistan from its chronic tribulations. His sustained analyses and ...

The term “cold war” had existed since the 1930s, ... What the end of the war in Afghanistan means to one mother and her family. HISTORY & CULTURE.