afghanistan

How could you have Communist Afghanistan exist to this day?

So they gave up that communist regime and moved on, could 9/11 never happen? Could the Soviets still hold onto the SSRs?

What if Mohammed Zahir Shah was never deposed? The king was pretty liberal, tried to modernize the country. Sure he had opposition from the conservatives, the Communists, the Pashtun nationalists, but it seems to me none were strong enough to oust him until his idiot cousin launched a coup...

In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to stop it falling into the US sphere of influence. The war would prove expensive, damaging to morale and damaging to Soviet relations with the Muslim world, the US, Europe and China. The Soviets knew invading would be a mess, though they...

Assuming that, through a PoD after the invasion of Afghanistan, neither the USSR nor any of her allies collapse nor reforme (some will say that's ASB, but that's not the point), and that the Cold War keeps going, how long could the USSR keep fighting before being forced to withdraw its troops?

Why did the Soviet Union not ask the other members of the Warsaw Pact to participate in the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan? What would it take for them to do so? What would the consequences be?

Sunrise Over Medina An Alternate 2000s and Beyond Timeline This will be a timeline with a Point of Divergence at a full state recount taking place in Florida with strict standards on what are considered to actually be votes for Al Gore and George W. Bush, which has Al Gore winning Florida...

Greetings! IOTL, Iran's aid to the Iraqi insurgents and Taliban has been limited. In Iraq, Iranian aid is linked to approximately 500 US deaths, out of over 4,000. But what if, for one reason or another, Iran decided to give massive support to the oppositoion in Iraq and Afghanistan, including...

Blood in the Sand: A 1998 Taliban – Iran War Timeline Setting On August 8th, 1998, a detachment of the main Taliban army storms the city of Mazar-i-Sharif , a headquarters of the Afghan Northern Alliance(NA) and long standing symbol of the ongoing civil war between the two sides. As...

Based on my own limited understanding of Indian history, the Afghan invasion of India under the Durranis broke Maratha control of Northern India while leaving something of a power vacuum that spawned entities such as the Sikh states. However, I do remember reading the case on the forum that...