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In a sawdust-filled workshop nestled in the Karakoram Mountains, a team of women carpenters chisel away at cabinets -- and ...
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Learning the Right Lessons from Afghanistan
The conventional explanations for America’s failure to stabilize Afghanistan provide little help for future policymaking.
Silk Road used ‘anonymity layers,’ digital ... Jeffrey Brown visits the relics that have survived the tumult of recent history in Afghanistan.
He remained in Afghanistan for more than a decade ... A distinctive horseshoe-shaped bar featuring wine, beer and Silk Road- ...
The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.
After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts ... silver cookware from Afghanistan, rugs from Persia, turquoise from Tibet, saddles from Mongolia and luxury soaps ...
A U.S.-sympathetic Afghanistan will encourage China to bolster its defenses in the areas bordering Afghanistan. This additional military burden would be relatively light for Beijing, but it is a ...
My rail tour through Central Asia—Jewels of the Silk Road, offered by Golden Eagle ... shares a more-than-800-mile border with Afghanistan, and one side effect of the government's perhaps ...
MES AYNAK, Afghanistan - It was another day on the ... from a major seventh century B.C. religious site along the famed Silk Road connecting Asia and the Middle East. The ruins, including the ...