It explores the situation of Afghanistan in the late 1980s—when the country was under occupation by the Union of Soviet ...

As Afghanistan still struggles to find an elusive peace, here are a selection of his powerful and poignant photographs taken during the 1980s and 1990s. Afghan guerrilla fighter passes Soviet ...

Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old ...

Afghanistan’s environmental damage isn’t limited to recent years. Before the US invasion, the country faced devastation during the Soviet Union’s war in the 1980s. The Soviets used weapons ...

Nor could it be. Complete documentation of the most serious atrocities committed in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, when it is accomplished, will require broad-based and long-term efforts ...

As noted in the introduction above, outside countries played a vital role in militarizing Afghanistan over the 1980s and fueling the political instability that plagued the country during 1992-1993 ...

A student at the University of Dundee has embarked on a project to ensure the female artists of Afghanistan are not silenced by the Taliban ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada became the supreme commander of the Taliban in May 2016, and is now leader of the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. In the 1980s, he participated in the Islamist ...