“It’s hard to be an ally of the United States,” a Pakistani general is reputed to have said. “You never know when they might turn around and stab themselves in the back.” This darkly humorous insight ...

The State Department has decided to remove the Iranian exile group Mujaheddin-e Khalq from the U.S. government's terrorist list, officials said Friday, ending a decade-long fight over a controversial ...

Until 1988, the United States at every turn blocked attempts to secure a negotiated settlement between the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party government in Afghanistan and sections of the right-wing ...

The mujaheddin had travelled for six days from Takhar in northern Afghanistan to reach the Shomali Plain above Kabul, and they… The mujaheddin had travelled for six days from Takhar in northern ...

A narrative documentary which follows its protagonists’ human and professional adventures: they are Gino Strada, a surgeon from the Emergency health organisation, who is accompanied by Ettore Mo, a ...

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 By Steve Coll Penguin, 695 pp., $29.95 “It’s hard to be an ally of the United ...