This statement comes as a response to Polish President Andrzej Duda's statement regarding the "risk of rising crime" after ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

What is not up for debate, however, is that the aid program was launched in response to rising Soviet influence in Afghanistan. A communist coup in April 1978 toppled the government of President ...

Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...

In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi began digging at the Tillya Tepe site in northern Afghanistan, which archaeologists ...

But the rise of communism, the Red Army’s persecution of religious people across Central Asia and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 led the Jews of Afghanistan to leave for good to ...

Then, on New Year's Day 1980, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a non-aligned nation. Castro's foreign policy received a crushing blow. "Like a man at the horse races he bet all his money on a ...

Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, a move that remains a point of tension, though it moved China away from the Soviet Union.