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 - ...

On this day in 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. Chinese hackers stole ...

but by years of civil war and a ten year war with the former Soviet Union when it invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The U.S. response during this time was a) to arm and train Afghan rebels fighting the ...

Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, a move that remains a point of tension, though it moved China away from the Soviet Union.

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said ... with increasing global tensions due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Putin has, in the past, lamented the economic state ...

led the charge for an international boycott of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow in retaliation for the Soviet Union’s intervention in Afghanistan. As a result, a few hundred American wrestlers ...