Afghanistan News News Afghanistan » History: Government clears Afghanistan war history for publication after The Nightly reveals three-year clearance wait
A committee has approved publication of the first volume of the official history of the ADF’s role in Iraq and Afghanistan hours after The Nightly reported the book had been waiting three years for ...
News Afghanistan » History: Afghan women make history by being elected to National Assembly
KABUL, Afghanistan, November 14 (UNHCR) - The final results of Afghanistan's landmark parliamentary elections were only declared on Sunday, after several delays, but Shinkai Karokhail was already at ...
News Afghanistan » History: The ‘Graveyard Of Empires’ Myth Distorts Afghanistan’s Story – OpEd
Afghanistan is often called the “graveyard of empires”—a romantic label used to suggest that no foreign power can conquer it, that the country has single-handedly humbled giants like Afghanistan is ...
News Afghanistan » History: Afghanistan, 25 Years Later: Journalist Emran Feroz on the Legacy of “America’s Longest War”
This week marks 25 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of what would become the longest war in U.S. history. After installing a pro-Western government in Kabul in December ...
News Afghanistan » History: After 20-year war, Afghanistan reports lowest well-being in recorded history
In 2022, after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban regained power, Afghans reported an average life satisfaction of 1.28 on a scale from 0 to 10—or from the worst possible life to ...
News Afghanistan » History: The monuments of Afghanistan : history, archaeology and architecture / Warwick Ball
pt. 1. Introduction. -- The land -- The people -- pt. 2. The historical background. -- Prehistory and Bronze Age civilisations -- Iron Age and the Iranians -- Alexander and the establishment of Greek ...
News Afghanistan » History: Fact check: Trump administration officials try to rewrite their own Afghanistan history
There's been no shortage of fact-based criticism aimed at the Biden administration's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. There's been no shortage of fact-based criticism aimed at the Biden ...
News Afghanistan » History: Can Positive Change Happen from Within in Afghanistan Under the Taliban?
Four years after the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, Afghanistan faces a paradox. To the outside world, the regime’s restrictions — particularly on women and civil liberties — make positive change ...