Afghanistan has been the battleground of global struggles and its own brutal civil wars. Robert Crews, a professor of history at Stanford University, talks about the country's modern history.

A Modern History Of Afghanistan And The Taliban. The Taliban were formed out of this violence and chaos, and now the organization asserts itself over Afghanistan once again.

On Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, professor Elisabeth Leake of Tufts University gave the 148th Foreign Policy Seminar (FPS). It was open to attend both virtually via Zoom call and in person. “The FPS is a ...

1919: Afghanistan wins independence from nominal British control. 1973: Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan ousts his cousin King Zahir Shah in bloodless coup, becomes a president and declares Afghanistan a ...

“Stir the pot. Shake it up. If necessary, take fire,” is the way an officer describes an average day in Afghanistan in Annie Jacobsen’s book “First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the ...

So did hope for a stable, prosperous, modern Afghanistan. One U.S. president after another struggled to find a path to victory or a dignified exit. In February 2020, ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE APACHE, Afghanistan - Throughout history empires and kings have risen and fallen. While these empires and kings may no longer exist, remnants of their influences can still ...

This Is What a Modern Bride in Afghanistan Looks Like. Long coveted for its location along the Silk Road, the Afghan city of Herat sits at the confluence of cultures and contradictions.

Central Asian countries are taking steps to broaden relations with their southern neighbor, the Taliban-led Afghanistan, despite the hard-line group’s increasingly restrictive policies ...

But when the Taliban took over, many of Afghanistan’s most popular poets had to flee. They are now figuring out how to find inspiration in exile and are using poetry to channel their pain.