The story of two superpower invasions of Afghanistan is all about the similarities that end up erasing the undeniable differences. As the Soviet Union prepared to leave Afghanistan in 1988, it stepped ...

For Viktor Ivanov, the road back to Kabul has taken two decades. He first arrived in Afghanistan in 1987 as a young KGB officer, back when the country was the southernmost outpost of the Soviet empire ...

Fifteen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election on September 28 in a race among old power brokers -- ex-government officials, prominent technocrats, and a notorious former warlord. The ...

The Taliban took over Afghanistan Sunday after US forces withdrew and the Afghani government folded. Photos from more than two decades ago show what life was like under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001.