In the not-too-distant past, a remote land of towering peaks and tough, resilient people was deemed so crucial to the world's future that the United States boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games to display ...

Well, it’s Friday. This is a special edition of the Pentagon Rundown in which we will look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise that the latest Defense Department review of the U.S. military’s ...

In an upcoming book, slated for release in October 2025, Paul D. Miller – a professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service – chronicles the ...

THAT'S ALL THE TIME THAT STOOD BETWEEN THE HORRIFIC EVENTS OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001, AND THE FIRST AMERICANS SETTING FOOT IN AFGHANISTAN ON OCTOBER 19th. 7,255 DAYS LATER THE LAST AMERICAN MILITARY ...

Here’s what he found. By Azam Ahmed Azam Ahmed, a Times correspondent and former bureau chief in Afghanistan, made repeated trips to areas in the country that had once been off-limits to foreigners.

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A unique cascade of turquoise lakes nestled in bleak mountains near the heart of Afghanistan was touted as a national park in the 1970s, long before three decades of ...

Soldiers from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, ford a stream during a security patrol in the Arghandab Valley, Afghanistan, Dec. 3, 2009.

After a two-decade-long war, the group signed the Doha Agreement with the United States in February 2020 – a document focused primarily on troop withdrawal and the Taliban’s commitment to prevent ...

Until now, many of the troubling events that took place during the war in Afghanistan have been shrouded in secrecy. Green Berets training support staff at Camp Mackall in North Carolina in May.Credit ...