The sad truth behind 12-year-old ‘Afghan girl’ Sharbat Gulla that will change the way you look at her iconic National ...

DHS notes approvingly that tourism has increased a whopping 913 percent, reportedly with the encouragement of the ...

The Soviet Union lost some 13,000 troops—among them 3,000 Ukrainians—in nine years of low-intensity combat in Afghanistan. Kyiv claims to be killing more Russian soldiers than that each month.

A team in exile, playing under a flag that no longer exists are potentially one victory away from reaching the Cricket World Cup semi-final.Afghanistan remain the most remarkable tale of the 13th ...

A Russian soldier, photographed in Ukraine's Donetsk region in July 2023, wears the Soviet victory banner, a flag that was raised over Germany's Reichstag by Red Army troops in May 1945.

COLUMN. In Odesa, as in the rest of Ukraine, monuments continue to commemorate the soldiers killed from 1979 to 1989 during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

Gorbachev also ended the Soviet Union's seemingly endless war in Afghanistan, reduced Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe, and resolved not to use force when the Berlin Wall, which separated ...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union's failed war in Afghanistan helped bring down its empire. Now Russia's faltering war effort in Ukraine is raising doubts about the future of Putin's regime. The ...

Soviet soldiers fly the Soviet flag over the German Reichstag in Berlin, 1945. ... In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in an effort to support a communist government there.

In Russia-occupied Ukrainian Melitopol, Russians have raised a huge Soviet war-time flag and play a Stalinist song from WWII which urges "to put a bullet into a scull of rotten fascist scum, to ...

In Kabul, he worked for Skateistan, a prominent international NGO, teaching skateboarding to thousands of children, “all the children in Afghanistan, the poor children,” Mohammadi said. He became the ...