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 out. Leshchinsky wasn't a soldier. A reporter ...

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 ...

Russia has lost far more troops than the USSR did in Afghanistan Russia is losing more people in Ukraine each month than the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Afghan Taliban fighter sit next to an anti-aircraft gun near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In 1982, Igor Yerin was working in a ...

Payind, Alam. “Soviet-Afghan Relations from Cooperation to Occupation.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 21, no. 1 (February 1989: 107-128. Reuveny, Rafael, and Aseem Prakash. “The ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump's comments about Afghanistan this week devolved into a history lesson gone awry and an embrace of the former Soviet Union's decision to invade the country in the 1970s. Trump ...

Old Soviet armored personnel carriers, tanks and artillery litter the countryside and cities of Afghanistan. Villagers in Khwaja Zaid in northern Afghanistan use two APCs along placed along the ...

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 ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban used the 23rd anniversary of the humiliating Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday to taunt the United States that it would suffer the same fate as preparations ...