James Cowan: From Helmand to HALO - a British commander’s remarkable Afghanistan story
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James Cowan has seen Afghanistan at its most intense: the frozen, “medieval” Kabul he first step...
Al Carns: Afghanistan captures your soul
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this profoundly personal and powerful interview, the UK's Minister for the Armed Forces, Al Carns...
Fred Smith: Songs, diplomacy and falling in love with Uruzgan
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Smith is an Australian diplomat, author, singer and songwriter who served alongside Australian ...
Zalmay Khalilzad: My life, my story, my mission (From Bonn to Doha Talks) - Part 2
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Born to a mid-level government official and an illiterate mother in Afghanistan’s northern city of...
Zalmay Khalilzad: My life, my story, my mission (From Kabul to the White House) - Part 1
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Born to a mid-level government official and an illiterate mother in Afghanistan’s northern city of...
Alexander Matheou: Afghanistan's humanitarian emergency
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Matheou, Regional Director for Asia Pacific of the International Federation of the Red Cro...
Taliban anniversary special: Four years of madness | Fereshta Abbasi
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 15 August 2021, the Taliban captured Kabul, reclaiming power after 20 years of war. Despite promi...
Heidi Meyer: Time to recognise the Taliban?
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi Meyer is a former NATO, Pentagon, and US State Department official with over a decade of exper...
Nathalie Paarlberg: A cultural history of Afghanistan
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nathalie Paarlberg is an art historian and the Chief Operating Officer at Turquoise Mountain. In thi...
Mary Beard: Taliban, women and lessons from history
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this exclusive and gripping interview, acclaimed historian Professor Mary Beard explores how the ...
Pascal Maitre: Afghanistan through my lens
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Maitre is a world-renowned French photojournalist whose decades of work from around the world...
David Tyson: A CIA spy's story in Afghanistan (Part 3)
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Tyson is a retired CIA officer who served for 25 years, much of it in Central and South Asia. ...
David Tyson: A CIA spy's story in Afghanistan (Part 2)
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Tyson is a retired CIA officer who served for 25 years, much of it in Central and South Asia. ...
David Tyson: A CIA spy's story in Afghanistan (Part 1)
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Tyson is a retired CIA officer who served for 25 years, much of it in Central and South Asia. ...
Sir Rodric Braithwaite: Inside the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Part 2)
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author who served as ambassador to the Sovie...
Sir Rodric Braithwaite: Inside the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Part 1)
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Rodric Braithwaite is a former British diplomat and author who served as ambassador to the Sovie...
Steve MacBeth: Inside Canada's Afghan war
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve MacBeth is a former soldier in the Canadian Army and the author of 'No Names, No Packdrill - A...
Gen. Joseph Votel: My lessons from Afghanistan (Part 2)
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
General Joseph Votel is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and was the Commander of U.S. Central ...
Gen. Joseph Votel: My lessons from Afghanistan (Part 1)
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
General Joseph Votel is a retired U.S. Army four-star general and Commander of U.S. Central Command ...
Jonathan Lee: What is Afghanistan? (Part 3) Hazara Genocide
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jonathan L. Lee is a social and cultural historian and a leading authority on the history of Afgh...
Jonathan Lee: What is Afghanistan? (Part 2) Drinking Blood
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jonathan L. Lee is a social and cultural historian and a leading authority on the history of Afgh...
Jonathan Lee: What is Afghanistan? (Part 1) The Hippies
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jonathan L. Lee is a social and cultural historian and a leading authority on the history of Afgh...
Toby Harnden: Inside the CIA's first combat team in Afghanistan (Part 2)
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Harnden is an award-winning journalist and author of 'Dead Men Risen' and 'First Casualty'.In t...
Toby Harnden: Inside the CIA's first combat team in Afghanistan (Part 1)
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby Harnden is an award-winning journalist and author of Dead Men Risen and First Ca...
رضا سرور: چگونه بورسیه بگیریم (Farsi Special)
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
رضا سرور یکی از دانشآموختگان برنامهی تحصیلی فولبرای...
Shaharzad Akbar: The Taliban have a vision for Afghanistan
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shaharzad Akbar is the Executive Director of Rawadari and the former Chair of the Afghanistan Indepe...
Saad Mohseni: The extraordinary life of a media visionary
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saad Mohseni is the Chairman and CEO of Moby Group, and the author of 'Radio Free Afghanistan'. Born...
Gen H.R. McMaster: Trump 2.0, Afghanistan and the Taliban
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
General H.R. McMaster served as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor for 14 months during his fi...
Sune Rasmussen: Afghanistan is a part of me
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sune Engel Rasmussen is a Danish journalist and author who lived in Afghanistan, reporting extensive...
Andrew North: My 20 years in Afghanistan
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew North is an award-winning British journalist and former BBC correspondent in Afghanistan, Ira...
Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 2)
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at t...
Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 1)
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at t...
Sir William Patey: The Taliban cannot turn Kabul into a Pashtun village
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir William Patey is a retired British diplomat with extensive experience in Middle Eastern and Sout...
Mark Urban: Marching onto Kabul with Ahmad Shah Massoud
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Urban is a British journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author of many books, including Wa...
Sir Laurie Bristow: Why did we get it so badly wrong for 20 years?
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Laurie Bristow, the UK's last ambassador in Kabul, witnessed the disintegration of the Islamic R...
Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 2)
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five de...
Thomas Barfield: Time to break up Afghanistan? (Part 1)
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Thomas Barfield is one of the preeminent experts on Afghanistan, having spent over five de...
Artemis Akbary: The costs of being gay in Afghanistan
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artemis Akbary is an LGBTIQ rights activist and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Afghan ...
Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 2)
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Ruttig is a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. He has worked on and in Afghanist...
Thomas Ruttig: The untold story of Germany in Afghanistan (Part 1)
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Ruttig is a co-founder of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. He has worked on and in Afghanist...
Fereshta Abbasi: I am lucky to be alive
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fereshta Abbasi is the Afghanistan Researcher at Human Rights Watch and a Chevening Scholar. Born a ...
Llewelyn Morgan: The Buddhas of Bamiyan
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Llewelyn Morgan is a professor of Classics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of "The Bud...
Franz-Michael Mellbin: Afghans were not good allies
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ambassador Franz-Michael Mellbin is a former EU Special Representative and Danish ambassador in Afgh...
Andrew Quilty: August in Kabul
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Quilty is a multi-award-winning Australian photojournalist and the author of "August in Kabul...
Pashtana Durrani: Afghanistan is not accepting its daughters
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born in a refugee camp in Pakistan, Pashtana Durrani is an Afghan human rights activist and the foun...
Question Time: Your questions answered!
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this first Q&A episode, I attempt to answer some of your questions...🌏 Get 10% discount on...
Zahra Nader: My mother begged schools to let me in
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born in Bamiyan, Zahra Nader is an award-winning journalist and the Editor-in-Chief of Zan Times, a ...
Sima Samar: Telling my story
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned for her decades of humanitarian work, providing health and education services to millions i...
Craig Whitlock: America and the lies of the Afghan War
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Whitlock is an investigative journalist at The Washington Post and the author of 'The Afghanis...
Mir Tamim Ansary: I will never see Afghanistan again
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author who left Afghanistan in the early 1960s. He has writte...
Larisa Brown: The Gardener of Lashkar Gah
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Larisa Brown is a British journalist and author. She is currently the defence editor at The Times ne...
Tobias Ellwood: We should engage with the Taliban in Kabul
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tobias Ellwood is a Conservative member of the British Parliament and a former chair of the House of...
Heather Barr: How dare we give up on Afghan women and girls
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She worked ...
Wendy Chamberlain MP: There are concerns Afghanistan is growing the next generation of terrorists
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Chamberlain MP is a Liberal Democrat member of the British parliament. She is the co-chair of ...
Johnny Mercer: Afghanistan is deeply intoxicating
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Mercer is Britain's Minister for Veterans' Affairs. He served three tours in Afghanistan as a...
David Loyn: Engagement has failed, the West should support alternatives to the Taliban
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Loyn is a renowned British journalist and author who specialises in Afghanistan, with decades ...
Charlie Herbert: Persecution of the Hazaras is the untold story of Afghanistan
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Major General Charlie Herbert served multiple tours in Afghanistan and led British forces in Helmand...
Stephan Jensen: I cried in an Oslo cafe when Kabul fell to the Taliban
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Jensen is a former Norwegian army officer who served in Afghanistan's northern provinces of ...
Habiba Sarabi: How I made history
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Habiba Sarabi is the former Minister of Women's Affairs in Afghanistan and was the first woman to...
Jason Criss Howk: Time is running out for Afghanistan
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Criss Howk has spent 21 years focused on Afghanistan in defence, diplomacy, academic, humanita...
Mohsin Dawar: Pashtuns who support the Taliban are harming Afghanistan
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mohsin Dawar is a Pakistani politician who leads the political party called the National Democratic ...
Fawzia Koofi: My bags are still packed
04 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fawzia Koofi has been a prominent figure in Afghanistan's politics and a women's rights activist. Sh...
Refugees in Indonesia: Betrayed and forgotten
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hussain Shah Rezai fled Afghanistan when he was a teenager almost ten years ago. He is one of over t...
Sir Laurie Bristow: We are utterly wrong to think Afghanistan's story is over
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Laurie Bristow was the British ambassador to Afghanistan during the Taliban's takeover in ...
Mozhdah Jamalzadah: I am a rebel and I can't be told to shut up
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mozhdah Jamalzadah is a singer, actor and campaigner. In this interview, she talks about leaving Afg...
Levison Wood: Afghanistan has a special place in my heart
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Levison Wood is a British a writer, explorer and photographer. He first walked through Afghanistan i...
Shakardokht Jafari: Not trying is the biggest sin
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shakardokht (Shakar) is a medical physicist and multi award-winning innovator, based in the UK.Born ...