A third day of peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan are underway in Istanbul, officials on both sides said.

The phrase "Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires" is perpetuated by the Taliban as a way to mythologise the image of the ...

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 ...

It would allow the US to again project power in the region, with China close by. But taking it back won't be easy.

The two countries are embroiled in a bitter security dispute, with each side saying they were responding to aggression from ...

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 into ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 25 -- As a special operations commander with Soviet military forces trying to subdue Afghanistan in the early 1980s, Sergei Goncharov's mandate was to capture or kill Afghan guerrilla ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan continue third day of peace talks in Istanbul as clashes along the border test the ceasefire and ...

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 into ...