In May 1988, Soviets started to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan after more than eight years of fighting. The process ...

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KABUL - The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days. Today, the U.S.-led coalition will ...

Vygaudas Usackas in The Wall Street Journal on lessons from the Soviets and Afghanistan Usackas, now the EU's ambassador to Afghanistan, begins by describing his regiment's successful attempt to avoid ...

"Today America is facing the same fate as the former Soviets and trying to escape from our country," the Taliban said in a statement. Purposely issued on the 25th anniversary of the final Soviet ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...

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, ...

HERAT, Afghanistan — A most unlikely ambassador has become a living centerpiece in this Afghan city’s Jihad Museum, dedicated to the memory of the mujahedeen, the Islamist fighters who fought a ...

* Gates' remarks suggest he is likely to favor more troops * Counterinsurgency plus counterterrorism approach likely * Opinion divided about whether it will work By Adam Entous and Phil Stewart ...

Retired Gen. Valentin Varennikov, 85, who directed the Soviet war in Afghanistan and joined the rebellion against Mikhail Gorbachev that sped the collapse of the Soviet Union, died May 6 at a hospital ...

I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...