Second Afghan War News Today

James Hevia is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago.

A legal expert has weighed in on whether Australias most decorated war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith should be stripped of his medals, following the dismissal of the former soldiers landmark defamation case.

The 19th century battle over Central Asia between the U.K. and Russia finds parallels today

THE family tradition of joining the military ranks runs deep in the region, going back almost two centuries and five generations in our case.

LONDON: The beautifully handwritten note on the yellowing service record, compiled by the Punjab government in 1919 and now over a century old, is as brief as it is poignant. In faded ink, the entry for Wasawa Singh, the son of Shera, a Jat from the village of Gaike in northeast Punjab, tells the story of a young life cut short in the service of an alien empire. There are no

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A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes adventure, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1866. It is in the public domain and has been transferre...

Afghanistan emerged as a country in the mid-18th century

The great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was undoubtedly the most famous person to be born in Ottery St Mary. But he was not the only famous name to be born...

And why didn't we listen to anyone who'd already tried to invade and occupy Afghanistan?