One of its least visited corners, the rugged Wakhan corridor, is an Afghanistan as few outsiders imagine it: shielded from violence by the Hindu Kush mountain range, locked in a more idyllic time ...

The Wakhan Corridor-a narrow strip of land carved during the colonial era-stands today as a haunting relic and a strategic vulnerability. It is an unchecked gateway through which Afghan-based ...

Beijing traveler Chen Dawei had journeyed to the Wakhan Corridor carrying memories of her late father and their shared devotion to Visitors on the Icy Mountain - a 1963 classic about frontier ...

The origins of the Wakhan Corridor lie deep within the geopolitics of the colonial era. In the 19th century, the British, in an attempt to establish a buffer zone between their colonial empire in ...