Why did the US fight a war in Afghanistan and why did it last so long? Back in 2001, the US was responding to the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed.

There remains no clear end in sight for a war that has turned into a bloody stalemate, as the BBC World Service's Dawood Azami explains. Since the US-led invasion in 2001, Afghanistan has never ...

The Twitter equivalent of a bickering married couple, Times newspaper columnist David Aaronovitch and Huffington Post Political Editor Mehdi Hasan, recently alighted on a point of agreement during one ...

Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday about issues surrounding the end of the Afghanistan war. Thousands of ...

Human Rights Watch has reported on widespread and serious violations of international human rights by all sides in the ongoing civil war ... 2001 report "Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan").

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...