Afghan officials on Thursday denounced President Trump’s praise of the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of their country, which he described this week as a fight against terrorism, breakin… ...

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 former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to prop up Afghanistan's then- communist government, which was battling anticommunist guerrillas. The U.S. condemned the Soviet move and ...

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 Soviet Union's direct role in Afghanistan began after the 1973 coup that ousted the ruling monarchy and established the Republic of Afghanistan, ...

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan 25 years ago this month -- the first time since World War II that organized Soviet troops had been sent outside the bloc or Cuba. The fighting in Afghanistan ...

The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 in order to prop up a friendly government. They withdrew in 1989 as the Soviet Union disintegrated, leaving the Afghan forces to take the lead in fighting ...

When the Soviet Union shocked the world by sending troops into Afghanistan 40 years ago this December, few Western observers guessed it was more thanks to accident and blunder than a conscious ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday spoke approvingly of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan as he made a number of inaccurate assertions about Russian and Afghan history.

The Obama administration should shape its Afghan policy around the lessons learned from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy in Afghanistan before the Soviet Union's collapse, New Yorker ...

As part of perestroika in the mid-1980s, the new Soviet leadership drew conclusions from our troubles in Afghanistan. We made two crucial decisions. First, we set the goal of withdrawing our troops.