It saw members of the Soviet Union, supported by the Republic of Afghanistan, attacked by over 200 Mujahideen rebels and Pakistani mercenaries. The resulting conflict would see over 200 Mujahideen ...

The Cyclical Failures of Russian Military Culture from Crimea to Ukraine Following President Zelensky's meeting at the White House, global attention should not only focus on Ukraine's battlefield ...

Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

In the 1980s (Afghan years 1359-68), the Soviet Red Army and its allied Afghan army committed massive war crimes and crimes against humanity, intentionally targeting civilians and civilian areas ...

"Close to 620,000 officers, sergeants and soldiers went through their military service there ... of the 35th anniversary of the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan. The ministry said "by assisting ...

In 1989, the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan after a ten-year losing battle with the Mujahedeen. Two years later, in ...

Kandahar, Afghanistan, Feb. 25, 2002: Explosive ordnance experts attach explosives to Soviet rockets for the purpose of ...

This most complex maneuver dubbed the ‘Afghan approach’ was invented by Soviet military aviation pilots during combat operations in Afghanistan to dodge missile attacks from the ground.