Nov. 16, 2006 — -- When American Nancy Hatch Dupree found out she had been dubbed "Afghanistan's grandmother," she "went into orbit," she said. The Afghans she worked with didn't understand her ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, November 14 (UNHCR) - The final results of Afghanistan's landmark parliamentary elections were only declared on Sunday, after several delays, but Shinkai Karokhail was already at ...

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world. Long before the name Afghanistan appeared in written record, the region formed one of the ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

The constitutional loya jirga that concluded in Kabul Sunday was a milestone on the Afghan people's path to democracy. Afghans have seized the opportunity provided by the United States and its ...

August 15 holds a solemn place in the collective memory of the Afghan people as a symbol of state collapse, the onset of darkness, and the failure of the international conscience. On this day, a ...

Tucked away in a modest Kirkland apartment is Mohammed Khalid Roashan, Afghanistan's former deputy minister for information and culture before he was forced into retirement by the Soviet-controlled ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in power and claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan's ...

CNN — There's been no shortage of fact-based criticism aimed at the Biden administration's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. But some of the criticism from former Trump administration ...

pt. 1. Introduction. -- The land -- The people -- pt. 2. The historical background. -- Prehistory and Bronze Age civilisations -- Iron Age and the Iranians -- Alexander and the establishment of Greek ...

Secretary of State Colin Powell went to Kabul last week to reaffirm America's help in creating a "new Afghanistan." For some clues to the problem of peace-keeping and nation-building in Afghanistan, ...