For more than a hundred years, British soldiers, diplomats, and spies and their Russian counterparts competed for influence over Afghanistan in what became known as ‘the Great Game.’ Britain fought wars in Afghanistan between 1838 and 1842, 1878 and 1880...
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British troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001. They were originally deployed with the UN-authorised coalition tasked with intervening in Afghanistan to find the leaders of the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda. By the end of 2001, the Taliban regime...