Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

Since Ahmad Shah Durani founded the Afghan state in 1747, various Pashtun-dominated regimes (monarchic, republican, communist, Islamist) have used the powers and institutions of the central government ...

Afghans whom Americans are sympathetic to ... the US military went to war globally with Third World "Communism" — and victory became a thoroughly outmoded word. In the Korean War (1950-1953 ...

Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the ... a young refugee fleeing the war between the Soviet-backed communists and the American-backed mujahideen. Today the iconic ...

For those four decades, the cold war dominated global politics. It was a conflict between democracy and communism that shaped the history of millions of people across the globe, and the modern U.S.