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 ...

Since Russia began its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies have provided historic levels of assistance to Kyiv, implemented the most extensive network of ...

A collection of long-lost Afghan gold treasures is going on exhibit at a Paris museum. The 22,000 pieces comprising the "Bactrian Gold" had been hidden in Afghanistan since the 1979 Soviet invasion.

A museum dedicated to mujahideen resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has reopened in Herat with significant ...

President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan rebels, but it was the administration of President Jimmy Carter that laid the groundwork.

I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

Veteran Russian dissident Oleg Orlov, who has been freed after spending more than 6 months in prison, has been a campaigner since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

Herat (Afghanistan) (AFP) – An Afghan who fought against Soviet forces still visits a museum celebrating the resistance, but, in keeping with rules by the Taliban authorities, the displays have ...