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 - ...

President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan rebels, but it was the administration of President Jimmy Carter that laid the groundwork.

A Trump executive order suspending refugee programs has trapped the families of U.S. troops in Afghanistan who were promised ...

Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted ... to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

The British mission led by Louis Cavagnari was massacred by some Afghan soldiers and the treaty got ... the eventual Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan was the start of an entire era of new ...

“It reveals that there was no attempt to ensnare the Soviet Union in the Afghan trap, and U.S. policies were in fact marginal in leading to the Soviet military intervention,” he said. What is not up ...

In late September, a US HC-103J Super Hercules spotted four foreign vessels operating about 440 miles southwest of St.

However, Afghanistan was notably excluded from the agreement, which was forged when the Soviet Union was embroiled in its military conflict in the country. After the dissolution of the Soviet ...

It is the number of US troops who died in Afghanistan ... the last of the Afghan leaders to be brought to power with Soviet support), mujahideen leaders who had been supported, armed and financed ...

Actually made up of three installations, the former Soviet base remained under ... This meant driving U.S. and NATO troops out of Afghanistan. The program developed gradually, but ultimately ...