Thanks to the National Archives and Records Administration, we can trace Afghan involvement in U.S. military operations back to the Civil War. Kahn described participating in the Peninsula Campaign ...

Thus was Maiwand Banayee introduced to the alphabet as a young boy in an Islamic seminary, a cluster of mud houses scattered about the swept arid landscape of a refugee camp in northwest Pakistan, ...

After 25 years of civil war, Soviet occupation and rule by the fundamentalist Taliban, Afghanistan-s various ethnic groups have agreed on a Constitution. Though it looks good on paper, even supporters ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Moderate Taliban figures have expressed interest in the fragile peace process, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said Thursday, referring to a deal that appears even ...

AP Diplomatic WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Central Intelligence Agency is warning in a classified analysis that Afghanistan could descend into civil war due to fierce competition for power among rival ...