From 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Union fought a grueling conflict in Afghanistan that became known as the “Soviet Vietnam.” Soviet forces struggled against Afghan guerrilla fighters, the Mujahideen, who ...

Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet soldiers and ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thirty years after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, some Russian politicians are calling for a reassessment of the conflict which critics have long cast as a bloody foreign ...

The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...

The Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry. These flying beasts were killers. At the height of the Cold War, ...

Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush ...

A former Soviet soldier has been discovered hiding in Afghanistan under an assumed identity 33 years after going missing. Bakhretdin Khakimov disappeared during the first months of the nine-year war ...

The Northern Alliance was primarily composed of remnants of the Mujahideen factions that had fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. However, after the collapse of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The essay examines four files from the U.S. National Archives dealing with information management in Afghanistan at the onset of the Cold War.