Afghan President Hamid Karzai and many of his top cabinet ministers are visiting the United States, a trip that both sides hope will ease the strain in bilateral relations.
Eighteen years ago in early May, Mujahedeen resistance fighters entered Kabul, laying claim to Afghanistan’s capital after the collapse of the Communist regime. At the time, the city had not been severely damaged by warfare and Soviet occupation. The 18 years since then have not been kind to Kabul, though.
