On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

This statement comes as a response to Polish President Andrzej Duda's statement regarding the "risk of rising crime" after ...

Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan ...

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 - ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin praised the role of Soviet soldiers in ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz. Until its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a Russian delegation had always attended the ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops arrived at the gates of Auschwitz and found some 7,000 weak and emaciated prisoners. Boris Polevoy, a correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Pravda who was a first ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown ...