The middle map shows, in green ... the north of the country is stabler and less violent than the south or east. The Afghanistan War is extremely complicated, but this map does a remarkable ...

Almost seven years ago, I wrote a cover story for this magazine about the coming collapse of the post-World War I Middle East map. I conducted ... it is not just Iraq and Afghanistan that appear ...

adding to journey times and fuel costs in the latest disruption for routes between Asia and Europe as tensions in the Middle East escalate. Flights over Afghanistan were already growing in recent ...

But such a map is increasingly outdated ... the security-driven focus that has characterized many of the failed U.S. policies in Afghanistan and the Middle East over the past two decades. This would ...

Graeme Smith, a senior Afghanistan analyst at the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said rising tensions in the Middle East "could have destabilizing consequences for the fragile ...