Afghanistan marked the 46th anniversary of the Soviet invasion as memories of occupation persist, while the country now struggles wit ...

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

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 code has been copied to your clipboard. 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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

During the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan in 1979-1989, Serhiy Titunov's job as a soldier was finding and seizing U.S.-made Stinger missiles that were being used by Afghan mujahedin resistance. The ...

* Grisly dioramas show horrors of 1979-89 war * Anti-Soviet battles were followed by Afghan civil war By Golnar Motevalli HERAT, Afghanistan, April 26 (Reuters) - The bloodied corpses of Soviet ...

Twenty-five years ago Friday, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to preserve communism along the Soviet borders. President Jimmy Carter sent U.S. troops to help the Afghans win over the Soviets, ...