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 ...

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

Afghanistan is currently in the grips of its worst winter in more than a decade. Temperatures recently plunged to below minus-34 degrees Celsius (minus-29.2 degrees Fahrenheit).

The first Cold War featured a series of proxy wars of the kinetic variety, whether in Vietnam, Cuba or Afghanistan. In a second Cold War, the proxy wars will likely be fought in cyberspace.

In this community, as with many across Afghanistan, the overlapping crises of an economic crash, malnutrition and brutal weather have cut short any sense of relief after the long war finally ended ...