In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...

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

Russia’s recognition of the Taliban provides much sought-after legitimacy to a regime that is enforcing the world’s most ...

The mujahideen, funded and armed by the West, fought what was then a global superpower to a humiliating retreat. The conflict helped unravel the USSR. Now, Russia returns not as occupier but as ...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union's failed war in Afghanistan helped bring down its empire. Now Russia's faltering war effort in Ukraine is raising doubts about the future of Putin's regime. The ...

Judyt Mandel, a 28-year veteran of the State Department and an expert on Russia and the Soviet Union, says that perhaps 300 to 500 former Soviet troops may still be in Afghanistan.

During his freewheeling, 90-minute cabinet meeting Wednesday, President Donald Trump briefly argued that the Soviet Union "was right" to invade Afghanistan in 1979 because "terrorists were going ...

Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan, sparking outrage from ...

This comes months after the Russian parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to remove the Taliban ...