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 Taliban seized power in Afghanistan amid a chaotic U.S. withdrawal and toppled the Western-backed government in 2021.

With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

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

Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet troops and vehicles arriving in Kabul on December 29, 1979. François LOCHON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images The Soviet decision to invade Afghanistan was prompted by competition with the US ...

Some 15,000 Soviet soldiers died in Afghanistan in a conflict that lasted a decade. Many more Russians are thought to have perished in Ukraine in seven months.

Their assessment proved correct. There was no peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. Thousands of Soviet troops had died for nothing. In 1988, Gorbachev bluntly told the Politburo that the Soviet ...

The Soviet Union also attempted to extend its influence over Afghanistan. In 1955, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (center) reviewed Afghan troops with Afghan Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daud ...