The New Russian Invasion of Afghanistan. Published Apr 02, 2010 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated May 26, 2010 at 3:39 PM EDT. By Anna Nemtsova . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member. FOLLOW. news article.

The reality in Afghanistan and the region provides a lot for peacemakers to work with -- if we can look past gloomy predictions. 40 years ago, the Soviet Union eliminated a communist rival from ...

They have keenly sought official international recognition and investment, as the country recovers from four decades of war, ...

Prague, 23 December 2004 -- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is generally thought to have begun on 24 December 1979, when three Soviet divisions took control of airfields in and around the ...

More than three decades ago, Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian journalist, tracked down and interviewed scores of soldiers who survived the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that began in 1979, and ...

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During the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989), a strength of the U.S. response was the consistency of its primary objective across three presidential administrations: The USSR ...

Noory was born in Afghanistan in the mid 1970s. He still recalls the Soviet invasion of his native country in 1979. “I remember the Soviet army crossing through my city when I was a child.

The Taliban government said Russia has made a "brave decision" and set an example for others. Moscow said it wants to boost ...