Listen to Afghanistan

From Barnett R. Rubin comes Afghanistan, available as a complete audiobook for History listeners.

After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world’s major powers. In the mid-1990s, the country entered a new phase, when the Taliban took power and imposed order based on a harsh, repressive version of Islamic law. Infamously, the sheltered Osama bin Laden, whose attack on 9/11 Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades.

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