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 ...

"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.

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, ...

Gravekeeper Aynullah Rahimi unlocks a door at the British Cemetery in the Sherpur neighbourhood of Kabul, home to generations of foreign fighters, explorers and ...

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 ...