The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

Veterans of the Soviet Union's unsuccessful intervention in Afghanistan give their views about the U.S. experience there. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989. The U.S. pulled out last month.

WASHINGTON -- Military experts said yesterday that as many as several hundred veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan may be fighting for rival ethnic groups in the Central Asian nation. The ...

Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to ...

Experts monitoring the Taliban’s new diplomacy push in Asia say China could follow suit, paving the way for wider recognition ...

The Soviet Union sent thousands of its soldiers into Afghanistan at the end of December 1979. The resulting conflict lasted nearly a decade, and estimates widely put the Soviet death toll at ...

This comes months after the Russian parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to remove the Taliban ...

Soviet troops withdrawing from Kabul in February 1989. Patrick ROBERT/Sygma via Getty Images This indifference was enabled by relatively low levels of troop deployment, which reached 120,000 at ...

Even in February 1989, while the last Soviet soldiers were departing from Afghanistan, President George H.W. Bush refused to commit to ending U.S. assistance to Afghan rebels who opposed the ...

Russia becomes the first country to recognise the Taliban's government in Afghanistan, hopes for more bilateral cooperation ...

A former senior Taliban official told CBS News that while the move was welcome, "Russia and China can't financially support ...