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 ...

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

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 ...

From July 11 to 12, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad met with senior diplomats from Russia, China, and Pakistan in Beijing to discuss the resolution of ...

When a legislative body formed in the reformist Gorbachev era gathered in Moscow in December 1989 to reflect on the U.S.S.R.'s failed war in Afghanistan, its assessment of the military effort that ...

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 ...

The decision marks a major diplomatic milestone nearly three years after the group returned to power.

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.

But it might be worth exploring yet again some historical aspects of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, 1979–1989, in order to shed some light, not only on the present predicament of the American ...

D ays after Russia officially recognised the Taliban government in Afghanistan, speculations are rife over whether Pakistan will follow suit. While Pakistani officials have maintained that they are in ...