A narrow strip, 350 km long and 34 km wide, located at very end of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Wakhan corridor is a legacy of 1893 Durand Line agreement drawn during the British era in order to ...

For a still-young subgenre, it can feel as if the narrative possibilities of the War in Afghanistan soldier study are approaching exhaustion — until a film like Clement Cogitore’s clever, ...

Once an isolated region barely touched by the hands of time, Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor stands on the brink of great change with the building of a new road linking it with China. Home to majestic ...

There has recently been a lot of careless talk on social media about Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor – also called Dalan-e-Wakhan in Dari, or De Wakhan Dehleez in Pashto – in the Pamir Mountains.

A lush field of wheat ripening to gold. Beyond that an ancient river celebrated in the Puranas and early Greek texts — a river that flows now across four countries, its colours changing from ...

In the late 1990s, New York-based photographer Frédéric Lagrange became obsessed with traveling to Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor after reading "A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush," English writer Eric ...

Soldiers participate in an anti-riot armored-vehicle training exercise on Feb. 10, 2018, in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province of China. (VCG via Getty Images) BEIJING — China’s ...

Recently, social and digital media in Pakistan and India have been abuzz with claims of Pakistan forcefully annexing the Wakhan Corridor to secure a land route to Central Asia. It coincided with ...

In this country’s most remote corner – far from the central government, the Taliban, running water, roads, paper currency, foreign troops and medical care – word of the other Afghanistan has arrived.

As the Taliban took over Afghanistan in the wake of the US departure, China made it clear to the Islamic group that it saw stability along their short and mountainous shared border as a top priority.

In war-torn Afghanistan, poverty is widespread, and malnutrition affects more than 40 percent of children under 5. The problem is particularly severe in the remote Wakhan district of the country's ...