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 ...

By 1992, the Soviet-backed government was overthrown and the country was plunged into a bloody civil war, setting the stage for the Taliban to assume power four years later. Flash forward.

WASHINGTON -- Military experts said yesterday that as many as several hundred veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan may be fighting for rival ethnic groups in the Central Asian nation. The ...

Despite grievous mistakes in planning and execution, however, the Soviet war in Afghanistan was no unmitigated failure. Until Washington provided the rebel mujahideen with Stinger surface-to-air ...

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.

Afghans have lived through Soviet and U.S. invasions, civil war, insurgency and a previous period of heavy-handed Taliban rule. Here are some key events and dates from the past four decades.

The Soviet Republic, once proclaimed, would receive aid from Tashkent against any British-Indian opposition. To this end, Russia must increase her military supplies in Central Asia to assure adequate ...

Retired Gen. Valentin Varennikov, who directed the Soviet war in Afghanistan and joined the rebellion against Mikhail Gorbachev that sped the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow. He ...

Coll writes in the post that while planning the Soviet exit strategy from a deteriorating war in Afghanistan, Gorbachev "Afghanized" his military strategy by building up and deploying Afghan ...

Veterans of the Soviet Union's unsuccessful intervention in Afghanistan give their views about the U.S. experience there. The Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989. The U.S. pulled out last month.

We Asked Vets Of The Soviet-Afghan War To Judge The U.S. Exit. Here's What They Said. MOSCOW — It has been more than a month since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Sergei Opalev is ...