When asked whether the Soviet Union should have sent troops to Afghanistan, 42% of those polled said no, while 31% said yes. Another 27% found it difficult to answer the question. Most of those ...

Meanwhile, many signs and echoes of the former Soviet Union have resurfaced in Afghanistan over the past decade, often in unexpected forms. Georgian and Azeri troops served among the ISAF forces ...

In 1988 the president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah, made a fateful decision. After years of combat, exhausted Soviet troops were finally withdrawing from the country. Fearing Afghanistan ...

Bin Laden was in Afghanistan, under the protection of ... They emerged in the civil war that followed the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, predominantly in the south-west and the Pakistan ...

Peace could finally arrive in Afghanistan wrapped in a down-filled winter coat now sitting on a Chanhassen basement floor. Shawn Mingus, a former Army National Guardsman, founded an organization ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...

In the interview, timed to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, the general recounted that the most difficult period in the Afghan war for him was ...

He performed for Soviet troops in Afghanistan, in Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster, and in 2016 sang for Russian soldiers in Syria. He entertained Russians in their living rooms for decades ...

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 - ...