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By comparison, the business in Kabul doesn't look exactly like the Berlin Airlift, in which food was flown to West Berlin, rather than people being evacuated.Update August 24, 2021, 8:07 PM ETBut as a model of humanitarian and political…

NOTtoo long ago, Pakistan and Afghanistan were called Af-Pak: two countries hugging each other, doomed to live and die together. You couldn't choose your neighbors, we were told. Geography, we were taught, was our destiny.There has been a…

The United States signed its first arms deal with the Soviet Union in 1972. Since then, there has always been a warning that if its opponent in Moscow does not live up to the terms of the deal, the US United had to preserve the ability to…

For decades, I have exhibited on my shelves two minor pieces of Gandhara sculpture, a stylized head of Buddha and a fragment of a stone frieze, an art form that developed in the northern region. -western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan…

There is an old Soviet tale about Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At lunchtime, he retired to his office and looked at the world map. The map was centered on the Soviet Union. The old Bolshevik was staring at him as if it were a giant…

For more than seven decades, very credible witnesses and sophisticated sensors observed mysterious objects fly in a way that defy easy explanation. But until recently the old presidents, High intelligence officials, members of Congress and…

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A recent Loudoun County School Board meeting was violently disrupted in part because of Critical Race Theory…

Kazan eventually won the title of Russia's “third capital” from the city of Nizhny Novgorod in 2009, although it still lags behind Moscow and St. Petersburg in terms of living standards. “Many people in Kazan have recently…

MOSCOW - Belarusian anti-government activist found dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Tuesday, in what police described as murder or suicide, shining the spotlight on the risks faced by opponents of Belarusian leader Alexander G.…