Wedged between the Middle East, south Asia and central Asia, Afghanistan occupies a pivotal place in world geography and world history. Its location has helped draw a diversity of cultures, religions ...

In order for any settlement with Russia to have a chance of lasting, Putin must be forced to reach the conclusion that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had in 1985 regarding the Soviet war in ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as ...