The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

The reality in Afghanistan and the region provides a lot for peacemakers to work with -- if we can look past gloomy predictions. 40 years ago, the Soviet Union eliminated a communist rival from ...

(Photo: Naqib Ahmad Atal) "Russia maintains its long-standing interest in stopping the flow of drugs from Afghanistan, which causes serious social problems across the former Soviet Union," said ...

Once they were equal, the United States and her European allies acted on the assumption that since neither America nor the Soviet Union were ... the Iranian and the Afghanistan crises they can ...

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 ...

The Soviets have said that their last soldiers will be out of Afghanistan within a week. Report shows canon being fired and Soviet aircraft. Soviet troops on tanks. A group of civilians queuing ...

In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi began digging at the Tillya Tepe site in northern Afghanistan, which archaeologists ...