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 has become the first country in the world to formally recognize Afghanistan's Taliban government. This improves the radical group's standing on the world stage, and puts pressure on the West to ...

For example, Russia’s latest military exercise with Tajikistan concluded on April 23 and was built around the scenario of a joint reaction to a situation on the border with Afghanistan.

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 ...

Russia completed joint military exercises with troops from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on August 10 as the Taliban gained control of much of northern Afghanistan bordering Moscow’s Central ...

Russia has officially recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Russian President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov told the RIA Novosti news agency on Thursday.

About 10,000 troops from China and Russia are carrying out joint military exercises in northwestern China to test some of the People’s Liberation Army’s newest weapons and signal unity on ...

Chinese and Russian military forces are engaged in joint exercises in northwestern China as ties grow between the two autocratic states amid uncertainty over the instability in Afghanistan.

Three decades after the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia’s cultural, economic and personal ties in the country remain deep. When Russia has looked to exert influence, ...

The controversy over alleged Russian bounties to the Taliban for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan is mounting. Despite rejections by U.S. President Donald Trump, Moscow, and the Taliban of reports ...

Moscow and Washington are intertwined in a complex and bloody history in Afghanistan, with both suffering thousands of dead and wounded in conflicts lasting for years ...

The Russian foreign minister questioned what results would be achieved with a small U.S. presence outside Afghanistan when a 100,000-strong NATO force inside the country “failed to do anything." ...