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 ...

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 ...

Kabul is facing a severe water crisis, potentially becoming the first modern city to completely run out of water. Groundwater ...

Nevertheless, in Herat, as in the rest of Afghanistan, child marriage is still ... delicate enough for a hint of red lipstick to peek through—a modern touch in the midst of tradition.

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.

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

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 ...

Kabul faces a severe water crisis as aquifers rapidly deplete and almost half of the city’s boreholes dry up. Experts have ...