as well as mini-maps of Afghanistan’s ethnic groups, droughts and earthquakes, Taliban and Northern Alliance strongholds, and refugee camps in the country. In addition to those distributed with ...

My research on Afghan affairs can explain how they have created fault lines that have influenced Afghanistan’s politics since 1978. The largest ethnic group in Afghanistan, estimated at around ...

Afghanistan’s history of internal disquietude continues now, as its many different ethnic groups, tribal leaders, emerging political parties, and warlords vie for influence. Of course ...

The United States and the rest of the international community feared that Afghanistan's rival ethnic groups would use their regional power bases to pull apart any unitary state, forming in its place ...

Decades of war mean there has not been a national census in Afghanistan for many years. However, it is widely accepted that Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group, with Tajiks second, followed by ...

Dozens of ethnic Kyrgyz from Afghanistan's remote Wakhan Corridor are calling on the government in Bishkek to repatriate them to their ancestral homeland so their children can get the education ...

WASHINGTON -- Military experts said yesterday that as many as several hundred veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan may be fighting for rival ethnic groups in the Central Asian nation.

Pashtuns comprise a plurality in Afghanistan and are the predominant ethnic group in much of the country’s south and east. They are also a major ethnic group in Pakistan’s north and west.