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

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, Tatyana Rybalchenko, who worked as a nurse during the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan between 1986 and 1988, holds a photo of her taken in June 1986 in ...

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 ...

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 cross into Uzbekistan during the withdrawal from Afghanistan on February 6, 1989. DOUGLAS CURRAN/AFP via Getty Images 2022-11-09T22:57:00Z ...

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 ...

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