Vladimir Putin’s “colossal error” in Ukraine is setting the stage for a potential collapse of the Russian Federation, ...

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 ...

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.

Russia's decision to formally recognise the Taliban government has been seen as an opening for a stronger economy by some ...

They've been down that path before with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It turned into a decade-long war in the '80s. And they're certainly not looking for a repeat.

Effects of Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Loom Large Twenty-five years ago Friday, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to preserve communism along the Soviet borders. President Jimmy Carter sent ...

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

Lieven, who studied the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its subsequent occupation, defeat and withdrawal a decade later, said Moscow would “prefer to see a mixed government in ...

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 ...

Russia became the first country to recognize the Taliban as the ruling government of Afghanistan on July 3, Russia's Foreign Ministry announced. "We believe that the act of official recognition of the ...

The Soviet Union lost some 13,000 troops—among them 3,000 Ukrainians—in nine years of low-intensity combat in Afghanistan. Kyiv claims to be killing more Russian soldiers than that each month.

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 ...