The troops -- sent to Afghanistan during the decadelong Soviet occupation of the country -- either were captured by Muslim rebels who were fighting the Soviets and a Moscow-backed government in ...

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

THE history of Afghanistan has been dominated by the geographical fact that it lies on the route of invasion to India. Cyrus and the Persians, Alexander and the Macedonian phalanxes, the barbarian ...

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

Throughout the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan expanded military assistance and repeatedly pledged U.S. commitment to opposing Soviet aggression until there was a complete withdrawal of Soviet troops.

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

Her work is an unequalled oral history of the Soviet Union and its collapse. Some 15,000 Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan in a conflict that lasted a decade.

Russia has become the first nation to recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan since it took power in 2021, announcing ...

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

On 24th December 1979 Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan in support of an anti-government coup. The Soviet occupation would last for nine years. Plus, the hidden history of the board game ...

Moscow has accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...