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 soldiers and ...

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 - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Afghan Taliban fighter sit next to an anti-aircraft gun near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, ...

The Taliban has called on Afghans to expel the United States from Afghanistan just as they said mujahedin fighters had done to Soviet forces 25 years ago to the day. In a statement issued on the 25th ...

The Manzar-e-Jahad (Jihad Museum) in Afghanistan's city of Herat commemorates the 1979 uprising of Heratis against Soviet political advisors in the city, and the ensuing Afghan conflict with Russian ...

Russia is increasingly approaching Afghanistan as yet another Central Asian state – including gradually opening access to its labor migration system. Taliban delegation members look at a model of St.

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