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Twenty years after a U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the resurgent militants have regained control of the country in a lightning offensive that has stunned the ...
Let us look at the recent turmoil in Afghanistan in the light of modern history. The modern “Age of Revolutions” in which systems of exercising power are changed began in the 17th century in ...
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.
She has published two books, the second being ‘Afghan Crucible,’ which is on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the international reaction.” Leake’s goal is to make complex histories accessible.
Eskenazi expressed a similar sentiment about Buddhist art: “You tell me what Afghanistan has to do with Gandhara — I mean, modern-day Afghanistan.” When I recounted the story of the Hamburg ...
Host Pete Hegseth spoke with a group of veterans who are banding together and mobilizing assets to get Americans and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan ... on Fox Nation's "Modern Warriors: Afghan ...
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 ...
In those years, the poetry scene that Khpalwak was part of embodied modern Afghanistan. Men and women took part in sher jangi, a traditional game that's a mix between a poetry slam and a rap ...
Afghanistan and Kazakhstan announced in August ... “the importance of developing trade and economic cooperation with modern Afghanistan.” Farangis Najibullah is a senior correspondent for ...