The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

True to the 'X factor' of Afghanistan's nebulous, twisting history, it took a relic of the Soviet fishing industry to bring the Western war machine to a standstill. As international forces arrived ...

The Afghan war involving Soviet troops lasted from 1979 to 1989. About 15,000 Soviet soldiers lost their lives during the fighting in Afghanistan. The anniversary of the Soviet troops ...

Afghanistan is one of the most fragile nations when it comes to dealing with climate change. According to global rankings, it ...

As Afghanistan still struggles to find an elusive ... Travelling with Afghan guerrillas during the Soviet war often involved long and exhausting marches along what were known as the 'jihad trails ...

Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...

filled with falsehoods, revisionist history and self-aggrandizement". Trump's take on the Soviet war in Afghanistan Perhaps most indicative of Mr Trump's extraordinary view of geo-politics and ...

Discovered against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War, the Tillya Tepe treasure ... In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

Afghans tired of war recently walked hundreds of kilometres ... The Taliban emerged in the early 1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, shortly before the demise of ...