This Kings and Generals episode focuses on the fierce campaigns in the Panjshir Valley and the ultimate Soviet withdrawal.

“Battle for Afghanistan” is about risking the lives of troops to protect the son of a high-ranking Soviet official. Don’t let anyone tell you there’s not a difference between superpowers.

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan 25 years ago this month -- the first time since World War II that organized Soviet troops had been sent outside the bloc or Cuba. The fighting in Afghanistan ...

Veterans of the Soviet Union's decade-long war in Afghanistan see parallels — and stark contrasts — with the U.S. experience and exit after two decades there.

Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Washington found that Zia’s policies dovetailed conveniently with getting Pakistani assistance in supporting Mujahideen insurgents fighting ...

After a decade of fighting, which killed more than a million Afghans and 13,000 Soviet soldiers, they pulled out, leaving behind a civil war that ultimately brought the Taliban to power. AP photo ...

The Soviet decision to invade Afghanistan in 1979 and the imbroglio that followed were seminal events in the Cold War’s last years. Kalinovsky goes over the whole story briefly and then, with a large ...

Nobody predicted the U.S.-led war would dislodge the Taliban so fast -- least of all the veterans of the Soviet Union's bloody 10-year Afghan war. So why has the U.S. encountered surprising ...

About 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed in the conflict, along with at least 1 million Afghans. Initially, the war was kept hidden from the Soviet public’s view, and draftees were sometimes ...

This time, it was a Soviet cluster bomb, killing 3 boys on a now-peaceful mountain. War after war has left Afghanistan littered with thousands of deadly next times.