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, ...
Here we go through a few possible examples of that, such as the Mongol Invasion of 1223, the Livonian War in the Baltic of 1558, the Khivan Campaign of 1717 in Central Asia, the Russo-Japanese War of ...
Geography and a history of proxy politics have made Afghanistan an arena for others’ contests, undermining its stability.
The President of the United States aims to regain the large Bagram airbase, from where the regions of Central Asia and South Asia can be controlled. Just four years and 19 days after two-star General ...