but by years of civil war and a ten year war with the former Soviet Union when it invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The U.S. response during this time was a) to arm and train Afghan rebels fighting the ...

Afghanistan: the looming refugee crisis Tobias ... “Us pulling out will lead to a terrible civil war because there is nothing simple about this transition. The Northern Alliance as it was ...

Attrition strategies and pressure campaigns unlinked to political strategies were bound to fail in an insurgency such as the War in Afghanistan, which was essentially a civil war between the ...

Though critics denounced President Joe Biden's handling of the exit, he said it was time to finish a "forever war" that had already cost too much Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human ...

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 ...

The first time he flew his cargo plane through the clouds over his hometown of Kabul, Tauheed Khan swelled with pride. “I flew over my childhood home,” he told CNN, on a quiet spring morning ...

Many of their members were former Mujahedeen fighters who had been trained in Pakistan during Afghanistan's civil war in the '80s and '90s. They came together with the aim of making Afghanistan an ...

TASS/. A continued civil war is still a possibility in Afghanistan, as well as the danger of terrorism spreading from this country to other Central Asian states and to Russia, Russian Security ...

US President Joe Biden said Monday it was no longer the United States’ responsibility to fight in Afghanistan’s civil war, despite disturbing scenes of the Taliban taking control of the ...