Luke Basso has been producing documentary short films on veterans and military history since he was in high school. He recently returned from Afghanistan and tells WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat ...

pt. 1. Introduction. -- The land -- The people -- pt. 2. The historical background. -- Prehistory and Bronze Age civilisations -- Iron Age and the Iranians -- Alexander and the establishment of Greek ...

Tucked away in a modest Kirkland apartment is Mohammed Khalid Roashan, Afghanistan's former deputy minister for information and culture before he was forced into retirement by the Soviet-controlled ...

The constitutional loya jirga that concluded in Kabul Sunday was a milestone on the Afghan people's path to democracy. Afghans have seized the opportunity provided by the United States and its ...

Secretary of State Colin Powell went to Kabul last week to reaffirm America's help in creating a "new Afghanistan." For some clues to the problem of peace-keeping and nation-building in Afghanistan, ...