In May 1988, Soviets started to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan after more than eight years of fighting. The process lasted until February 1989 and Su-25s played a very important role. They ...

An Afghan mujahideen commander who fought the Soviets and rose to become the country's first president after the Red Army retreated has died aged 93, his family said Tuesday. Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, ...

Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward's new book about the President's management of the Afghanistan War, exposes some pretty significant divisions between Obama's civilian advisers and the U.S. military on ...

In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. "Soviet Vietnam" began after a call for Jihad. In 1979, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan; Afghans called for Jihad. The country turned into the epicenter ...

When Kabul fell to Taliban forces on August 15, observers rushed to draw historical parallels to make sense of the situation. There were abundant analogies to choose from, between Afghanistan’s four ...

The film investigates the adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the Mujahideen against the Soviets in the 1980s. The director employs a highly ...

Decades ago, I resided in a quiet little burg in the East Bay. I was a single, hard working, recently divorced father of two. My work often took me up and down the West Coast. I was and still am a ...

President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan rebels, but it was the administration of President Jimmy Carter that laid the groundwork.