On this day in 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with ...

Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...

The lower house of Russia’s parliament has approved a bill that would set the stage for Moscow to remove the designation of ...

Afghanistan has suffered from over two ... the breakup of the Soviet Union, and war in the former Yugoslavia. In the United States, the fall of the Soviet-backed regime in late April 1992 ...

Can the prediction of future surprise attacks and their consequences be improved? Or is the iron grasp of history and the ...

Russia lives with the legacy of nine years of Soviet involvement in Afghanistan bolstering a government friendly to Moscow and resisting anti-communist guerrillas. About 15,000 Soviet troops died ...

A suicide bombing in Kabul on Wednesday killed the Taliban’s refugee minister, Khalil Haqqani, along with two others, marking ...

Abramowitz was leading Cold War hard-liners as he pressed to boost the firepower of mujahideen fighters in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. U.S.-backed fighters had made gains against the Soviet ...