The former U.S. and Soviet air base has been a central location for empires for thousands of years. Does Trump truly ...

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 - ...

During the Soviet military involvement in Afghanistan, their aircraft would sometimes attack Mujahideen bases in Pakistani ...

When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people out. Leshchinsky wasn't a soldier. A reporter ...

Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush ...

MINSK, 13 February (BelTA) - An official first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the postal stamp sheet marking the 35th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan was held at ...

The Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry. These flying beasts were killers. At the height of the Cold War, ...

It would allow the US to again project power in the region, with China close by. But taking it back won't be easy.

ALI MARDAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The foreign warplanes swooped in just as the Afghan village of Ali Mardan was celebrating a wedding. Bombs slammed into the crowded village square, killing 30 men, ...