Racked by years of war and instability, Afghanistan is crisscrossed by roads and pathways that are largely unmapped. That makes it difficult and sometimes impossible for government and aid groups ...

More than a thousand miles of harsh, mountainous terrain separates Pakistan and Afghanistan. The border is notoriously porous and difficult to enforce, as invading armies have learned — and it’s been ...

The Taliban's rapid advance across Afghanistan has left ever shrinking islands of government control dotted around the center and east of the country, plus the capital Kabul. Few observers expect ...

Google Earth developer Sean Askay has put together something truly remarkable for this Memorial Day. It's called "Map the Fallen," and it "uses Google Earth to honor the more than 5,700 American and ...

As the Taliban firms up its grip on Afghanistan, there is one remote region whose resistance to the militant group goes back decades. Now, the last major holdout is under threat. The Taliban has been ...

Corrected: This article misidentifies the U.S. Department of Education program that supports the development of foreign-language and geographic-regional study. It is Title VI of the Higher Education ...

The description “forever wars” is now associated with Iraq and Afghanistan, but the origins of the term are much older. A quick database search unearthed a 1959 clip from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat ...

Afghanistan must “be free of fear and abuse” under a final peace deal, says the country’s ambassador to Washington. An agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban, for new talks with Kabul, raises ...

As the Taliban firms up its grip on Afghanistan, there is one remote region whose resistance to the militant group goes back decades. Now, the last major holdout is under threat. The Taliban has been ...

As the Taliban firms up its grip on Afghanistan, there is one remote region whose resistance to the militant group goes back decades. Now, the last major holdout is under threat. The Taliban has been ...