In the Pashtuns' view, the Afghan nation refers to those people who originally settled near the Suleiman Range and spread to what is now modern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pashtun nationalists say ...
When the map of modern Afghanistan was drawn, it is said, the Afghan King's opinion was hardly a consideration. Three Anglo-Afghan wars were fought before Afghanistan announced its independence in ...
The clean, modern enclave, separated from the rest of Kabul by the airport, has a calm, family-­friendly atmosphere that’s rare for Afghanistan. “Suddenly vehicles become weapons,” Leslie says.
drawn by the British colonial authorities in the 19th century through the mountainous and often lawless tribal belt between the territory of modern Afghanistan and Pakistan. Last month ...
The mid-20th century was a stable period for the region, but when the monarchy was overthrown in 1973, and a communist coup in 1978 led to the Soviet invasion in 1979, modern Afghanistan's era of ...
have audited and investigated U.S. programs and spending to rebuild Afghanistan — a mission that, it was hoped, would turn the theocratic, tribal-based “Graveyard of Empires” into a modern ...
according to the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, a U.S. agency that will close this year. Such elements are used in an array of modern technology ...
In 1979 the Soviets had illsuited uniforms and inferior fighting tactics and found it impossible to defeat the popular Afghan guerrilla army They had underestimated their enemy and lacked the ...
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So his father named him after Ahmad Shah Durrani, an 18th Century king and the founder of modern Afghanistan. Ahmad was the eldest of six children - he leaves behind four sisters and a teenage ...