The wars were in the future — but they weren't very far off. When the Soviets invaded less than two decades later, it would hasten Afghanistan's path towards becoming a very different country.

Why have people been concerned about it, even before the terrorist attacks ... United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban.

Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday about issues surrounding the end of the Afghanistan war. Thousands of ...

Nine graphics show what changed in Afghanistan over the past two decades ... Yet, they also suffered the disastrous consequences of a war that didn’t end: the fighting killed thousands of ...

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 war in Afghanistan is over ... East Coast time, just before the clock struck midnight and Tuesday began in Afghanistan, which had been the deadline. As McKenzie spoke, he said, the "last ...

The Taliban took control of Kabul just weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the event that led to the US invasion of Afghanistan in ... had known nothing but war since the Soviets invaded ...

“Khalilzad has been wrong and naive about Taliban 2.0 before and there is no ... to end America’s longest-running war, which saw US troops leave Afghanistan after 20 years.

There have been hostages before and there will be hostages even after this,” Mr Crocker, who also serves as the member of the ...

Lindsay to discuss President Biden’s recent announcement to completely withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan before September 11, 2021. Max Boot, CFR’s Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow ...