By 1747 it became part of the Durrani Empire or modern Afghanistan.
Unchecked, this Gray World could become a major threat to the efforts to create a free, modern Afghanistan.
He was born in a village near Balkh in modern Afghanistan.
Visit lovely Kandahar, the brochure invites, "the city where modern Afghanistan began."
All the major cities of modern Afghanistan were centers of science and culture in the past.
Between the 4th and 19th centuries the northwestern area of modern Afghanistan was referred to by the regional name as Khorasan.
They are intimately tied to the history of modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India.
The Iron Amir forged modern Afghanistan through blood and determination.
This is hard enough for any child, but Mir has to face this challenge in modern Afghanistan.
In terms of development, that was probably modern Afghanistan's golden age.