Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

October 7, 2001 – Operation Enduring Freedom begins. US President George W. Bush announces that US and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. Airstrikes ...

CNN — There's been no shortage of fact-based criticism aimed at the Biden administration's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. But some of the criticism from former Trump administration ...

The suspect who shot two West Virginia National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., last week is Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old who worked with the CIA and U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan.

It’s been less than a week since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan’s major cities, and in those days, the VERIFY team investigated several viral images or videos social media users claimed to ...

European veterans and families of fallen soldiers condemned Donald Trump’s claim that Nato allies avoided front-line combat ...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan fell by 22 percent this year and prices for the drug tumbled causing farmers to switch to other crops, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Despite the decrease, ...

Afghanistan's earthquake has left more than 1,400 dead. Amid rescue efforts, fake and AI-generated images have been spreading online. DW fact checkers debunked some of the viral claims. A powerful ...