The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan 25 years ago this month -- the first time since World War II that organized Soviet troops had been sent outside the bloc or Cuba. The fighting in Afghanistan ...

It’s very likely that the Afghan people would have long ago built a functioning, even prosperous, state had the country not become the arena of Cold War confrontation between the former Soviet ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

Veterans of the Soviet Union's decade-long war in Afghanistan see parallels — and stark contrasts — with the U.S. experience and exit after two decades there.

The cold, sad truth, as Biden said Tuesday, is that the United States had only one real aim in invading Afghanistan following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Veteran British journalist and former News at Ten presenter Sandy Gall has died aged 97. His decades-long career was marked by fearless, compassionate reporting.