Afghanistan is not in the common definition of the Middle East today, that is true. But it is in the Greater Middle East, and when the Middle East was the Near East and it stretched into northern southern Central Europe (this is before that became East Europe), Afghanistan was in the middle of the Middle East, situated between the Near East and the far East. Today it is between the Middle East and the Far East, thus perhaps placing it in the Middle-Middle East (not to be confused with the middle of the Middle East).

It is all very eurocentric anyway.

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