True to the 'X factor' of Afghanistan's nebulous, twisting history, it took a relic of the Soviet fishing industry to bring the Western war machine to a standstill. As international forces arrived ...

On this day in 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. Chinese hackers stole ...

Afghanistan is one of the most fragile nations when it comes to dealing with climate change. According to global rankings, it ...

Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

The ignorance started early, dating back to the anti-Soviet campaign before 9/11 ... In reality the war effort in Afghanistan was not doomed by some mythical “graveyard of empire” but rather ...

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 ...

The Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East and Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI) hosted the ...

The foreigners that end up waging war there usually do not understand Afghanistan. This applies to neighbors like the late East India Company, the late Soviet Union, or nearby Pakistan, seeing ...