afghanistan

A few days ago I saw a tweet from a disgruntled individual bemoaning the American 'failure' in Afghanistan. It went along the lines of "Our (American) government sunk $978 billion on this pointless war and the Taliban are back anyway... might as well handed it to them instead so they invested it...

The Hotak Dynasty was a Afghan/Pashtun Dynasty that rose after revolting against the Safavids. They then took over Persia, becoming rulers of Persia, which gave way to the final fall of the Safavids, Rise of Nader Shah and the Afsharid Dynasty, and the Rise of the Afghan Durrani Empire. What...

What if something like this had come about? A senior-ish Pahlavi (Persian) royal princess who could obviously not become Shah of Iran (being female) nor his wife setting her eyes on becoming Queen Consort of the Afghan king instead? Could be a love marriage or political, doesn’t matter, but...

Iranian Revolution and War in Afghanistan were two of the most important events that happened in the late 20th century, it radically changed both the Middle East as well as Islam and set the stage for conflict in the post cold war era, but ironically, both did not have much influence on each...

The belief that the ethnic Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan are in fact descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel has persisted for a long time amongst Pashtuns themselves and Israeli academics in the last few decades. It likely has some basis in fact with many historical mentions of it going...

When the Taliban struck Afghanistan in 1994, they indirectly left a mark on the world that hasn't been completely wiped off. Their hospitality to Al-Qaeda led to the greatest terror attack in human history, and has dragged the United States into their nation- and many more. However, their...

Hello, I am new to this forum. I am wondering how the Marathas could have won the 3rd Battle of Panipat and what the effects would be. Maybe the battle could be on better terrain for the Maratha forces, and Awadh could give support to the Marathas instead, although I'm not sure why they would...

Afghanistan is one of the, if not the most unfortunate country since the end of World War 2, It has been devastated in a 40+ year war that shows no signs of stopping, But is there a way this fate can be avoided and above that, Afghanistan can Prosper ? Can Afghanistan be, In any world, be...

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." - President John F. Kennedy Hello all. Through my four years on this site (and many more years of lurking), I've never actually made a thread dedicated to a timeline of mine. In...

Butterfly the Nation of Afghanistan and it be divided into 3 parts, Eastern Pashtu Afghanistan more aligned with Indian Subcontinent, Western, Herat led Afghanistan more aligned with Iran and Northern Uzbek and Tajik Areas being part of Central Asia

A spiritual successor from my New participants to ww1. We all know that the Axis Powers were composed by Germany, Italy, Japan, their puppet states, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, the co belligerent Finland, Iraq and Siam. But what if they had more allies? What if the Axis was also reinforced by...

Otl, after the iranian revolution, the USA, under Carter gave Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the ousted Shah, refuge. Which went over poorly with the Islamic Republic. But what if we didn't? What if we approved the revolution, at least on paper. This would keep us away from Saudi Arabia over the 20th...

Turning the graveyard into a backyard. Is there any possibility, after 1800, that Afghanistan could have been partitioned between Iran, the Russian Empire, and a power based in northwestern India (likely the BEIC, but also possibly the Sikh Empire)? Basically, no Durand Line, either. Based on...

During Antiquity, Alexander the Great sweeped across the Persian Empire, reaching all the way to the Indus. In the following centuries, the region became hellenized in ways similar to Egypt, until the Arab conquests brought Islam to the region and reshaped the cultural landscape. Is it possible...

Seeing how now Russias and Iran's objectives in the region seem to align somewhat, specially regarding Assad, it made me thing how an atl Soviet Union could have found a similar partnership with Iran decades earlier in their common interest in Assadist Syria, maybe in Lebanon (the shia community...

With the exceptions of the Ossetians (since they’re very far away), is it possible that a successful pan-Iranist state could emerge and unite the Iranian peoples into one single nation? What would be the name of this country? Does this also include the Azeris? And is it possible not to dissolve...

Is it possible for Iran and Afghanistan to be part of one country after WWII? How can this be possible? Can it stick together? And how does that affect things?

What if western Afghanistan including Hazarajat and western Balochistan remained iranian after the Safavids and the rest of Afghanistan was annexed by the Mughals, and eventually become part of the Raj of India. If you want also divide the turkmen, uzbek and tajik north of Afghanistan among the...

Graveyard to Garden - A Royalist Afghan/Late Cold War TL [POD] Chapter Zero - Inaction July 1973, Afghanistan There was one thing to be laid up in bed with lumbago, sore, when you worked a standard nine to five job that you clocked out of at the end of the day, but it was entirely a...

This scenario may seem implausible on many levels. It assumes an extremely forward-thinking, liberal Afghan government with the incredible foresight to anticipate Western attitudes to drugs liberalization that would only materialize some 20-30 years later. Secondly, this is done in a tactful way...