The withdrawal of the Soviet 40th Army from Afghanistan from 1988 to 1989 was a militarily successful operation save one mistake.

How is the Soviet government explaining its actions in Afghanistan to the Soviet people and to what extent is it possible to agree with this explanation? There is some degree of truth in all three ...

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) called for positive interaction with the world on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. In the statement, ...

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 ...

In April 1978 in Afghanistan, a pro-Soviet Communist Party effected a revolutionary seizure of power for the first time since world communism suffered the Sino-Soviet split[1]. Taking place on the ...

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the foreign relations and international impact of the Taliban during their first period of rule from 1996 to 2001, focusing on interactions with global and regional ...

Though he lacked the foreign policy experience of a Richard Nixon or even Gerald Ford ... Carter's resolve more forcefully than the “Carter Doctrine,” his bold Persian Gulf policy adopted in response ...

Baev, Pavel K. (2008) Sad Wisdom of Hindsight: Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan (1979-1989), in Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics and the Way Ahead. Santa Monica, CA: RAND (37–46) ...

Pakistan hosts over 1 million legal Afghan refugees who fled their country due to the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, the subsequent civil war and the rule of the Islamist Taliban from 1996 to 2001.