U.S. caution echoes 1980s Afghanistan. The United States and its allies are moving in Syria toward a program of covert support for the rebels that, for better or worse, looks very much like what ...

While a superpower negotiates an exit from Afghanistan, India stirs up a hornet’s nest in Kashmir. It is the 1980s, and the world is at an inflection point that led to a major insurgency in ...

To understand how the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has unfolded, let's look back to the Reagan administration. Essential Politics: Leaving Afghanistan was always going to be hard. Look at the ...

John Dixon, the acting director of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies in Kabul, notes that like the communist leaders of the 1980s, the present government of Karzai is "not popular at all." ...

In the 1980s, Islamic fighters were battling the Soviets in Afghanistan. The U.S. supported those fighters, as it was happy to see the Soviet Union’s resources drained by an endless war.

Some Afghan-watchers worry that the West is repeating mistakes that the Soviet Union made in the 1980s when it sent troops there to prop up a communist regime.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia has formally recognised the Taliban administration in Afghanistan, becoming the first country to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Authorities are launching a new push to collect U.S.-made Stinger missiles distributed to Afghans fighting Soviet troops in the 1980s in an effort to keep the weapons ...

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s documentary tells the story of his friend and former classmate, who fled Afghanistan as a child in the 1980s and eventually made it to Denmark.

As per the agreement, the last U.S. soldier was out of Afghanistan on August 30, 2021. The Taliban claim to be protecting Afghanistan from foreign terrorists, perhaps having learned from past lessons.

As of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, at least 1,980 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated ...

Gail Nelson is pictured in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2013, with the tomb of the late king, Mohammad Nadir Shaw, in the background. Nelson says he was optimistic about the country’s chances during his ...