I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

"It's easy to enter Afghanistan, but it's very difficult to stay there," said Suleman Raja, professor at the University of Baluchistan, in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, near the Afghan border.

Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.Long before the name Afghanistan appeared in written record, the region formed one of the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an ...

Over the course of four years, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist spoke with dozens of elite military personnel about misconduct in Afghanistan by their peers. By John Otis Times Insider explains who ...