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The Battle of Maiwand and the Sherlock Holmes detective stories
140 years ago today (July 27, 1880), during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), a British Expeditionary Force was overwhelmed…
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Ariana, Khorasan and Afghanistan
The territory of today’s Afghanistan straddles the geographic boundaries of three main regions. It encompasses the converging…
Coup and the end of Afghanistan Constitutional Monarchy
On July 17, 1973, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan returned to power after leading a bloodless military coup against his cousin King…
“the Sawr Revolution” in Afghanistan
The April 27, 1978, bloody coup, staged by a bunch of Afghan army and air force officers affiliated with the Khalq faction of…
Anecdotes from an Unequal Battle
178 years ago today (July 23, 1839), during the First Anglo Afghan War (1839-1842) a nearly 21,000 strong British expeditionary…
The Founding Father of the Modern Afghanistan State
This month (October 2017) marks the 270th anniversary of the coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani the founder of modern Afghanistan…
First Anglo-Afghan War
On November 2, 1841, in the closing phase of the First Anglo-Afghan War, Kabul was shaken early in the morning by the news of a…
visit to Kabul of Nikita Khrushchev
61 years ago today (December 16, 1955) Soviet top leaders, Party Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister Nikolai…
today in History
On November 21, 1864 a circular issued by the Russian Foreign Minister, Prince Gorchakov justified his country’s conquests as a…
A Footnote to the Afghan War of Independence or the Third Anglo-Afghan War
Afghanistan marked the signing of the Rawalpindi Treaty of August 8, 1919 as its official Day of Independence (celebrated in…