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In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...
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When 39 Soviet Soldiers Took on 250 Afghan Mujahideen...The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...
The overlap between the fall of the Soviet Union and its foray into Afghanistan is obvious. The USSR invaded in 1979 and left a decade later, in 1989. The superpower dissolved shortly thereafter ...
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 ...
The Soviet Union sent thousands of its soldiers into Afghanistan at the end of December 1979. The resulting conflict lasted nearly a decade, and estimates widely put the Soviet death toll at ...
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.
WASHINGTON -- Military experts said yesterday that as many as several hundred veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan may be fighting for rival ethnic groups in the Central Asian nation. The ...
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 ...
The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on the 20th century — and still has an influence today.
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Russia has become the first nation to recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan since it took power in 2021, announcing ...
Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan, sparking outrage from ...
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