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 ...

Abdul Salam Hanafi, a deputy prime minister in the Taliban’s interim government, left, speaks to members of his delegation during talks involving Afghan representatives in Moscow, Russia ...

Russia’s recognition of the Taliban provides much sought-after legitimacy to a regime that is enforcing the world’s most ...

It remains to be seen if countries like China and Pakistan follow Russia’s lead. Moscow has historically had deep strategic ...

Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry ...

Moscow has become the first government to complete the normalisation of relations with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

As with the war in Ukraine, the invasion of Afghanistan was driven by the fear that Moscow was losing a crucial piece of its sphere of influence. With Afghanistan, the Soviet leadership believed, as ...

The recent assessment that Russia paid bounties to the insurgents to attack U.S. troops stunned many, but officials said the Kremlin’s outreach began almost a decade ago. By Mujib Mashal and ...

Well acquainted with his country's own defeat in Afghanistan, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticized the U.S. campaign in the Middle Eastern nation -- saying that it ended with ...

Ukrainian soldiers on December 7, 2023, in Avdiivka, Ukraine. Kyiv is facing another difficult winter of full-scale war with Russia again on the offensive in the east of the country.