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 - ...

True to the 'X factor' of Afghanistan's nebulous, twisting history, it took a relic of the Soviet fishing industry to bring the Western war machine to a standstill. As international forces arrived ...

The Afghan war involving Soviet troops lasted from 1979 to 1989. About 15,000 Soviet soldiers lost their lives during the fighting in Afghanistan. The anniversary of the Soviet troops ...

Afghanistan is one of the most fragile nations when it comes to dealing with climate change. According to global rankings, it’s the seventh most vulnerable country, yet it is one of the least prepared ...

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

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 the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces ... Mujahedeen fighters who had been trained in Pakistan during Afghanistan's civil war in the ...

With the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Carter administration ... that arguably contributed to the end of the Cold War a decade later — an outcome that was almost incomprehensible as ...

Soviet policy in Eastern Europe The 1950s ... government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played ...

Pakistan-Taliban war: Amid rising tensions with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban ... is the eldest son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, an anti-Soviet military leader and former defense minister of ...