In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his pathbreaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century ...

The Taliban regime has handed over the strategically crucial Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to the USA, media reports said. A ...

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 ...

Students may use this knowledge to postulate about what a war would mean for the Afghan people, short- and long-term. Afghanistan is under the microscope in the wake of the terrorist attacks on ...

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.

The general, whose career has been defined by special operations, has been tapped to lead a conventional deterrence mission.