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 - ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

Tehran’s growing engagement with Kabul underscores a calculated effort to navigate its own economic and geopolitical ...

Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted ... to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

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Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating the mistake.

Yaroslav Simkiv has played the trumpet for over 50 years and is a recognizable figure in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

A Trump executive order suspending refugee programs has trapped the families of U.S. troops in Afghanistan who were promised an escape.

The most likely choices range from reverting back to a Soviet-style mass army, to adopting a smaller but more flexible Western-style military, according to a new study by the Washington-based RAND ...

Americans tend to remember the Cuban... Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Soviet military combined grandiose vision and global aspiration with a defense-industrial base that had severe ...