When asked whether the Soviet Union should have sent troops to Afghanistan, 42% of those polled said no, while 31% said yes. Another 27% found it difficult to answer the question. Most of those ...

MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. The decision of the 1989 Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union to condemn sending Soviet troops to Afghanistan was historically unfair, according to the ...

In 1988 the president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah, made a fateful decision. After years of combat, exhausted Soviet troops were finally withdrawing from the country. Fearing Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...

Russia’s Supreme Court says it received a petition from the prosecutor general’s office to lift the ban on Afghanistan’s ...

During the window of time in the 1990s after Soviet troops left Afghanistan and before the Taliban took control, Belliveau and fellow explorer Francis O’Donnell followed Polo’s route through ...

In November 1986, Gorbachev withdrew all Soviet combat troops from Afghanistan to end a war that cost Moscow $4 billion to $5 billion annually and caused heavy casualties. He implemented a policy ...

While insurgent forces and militias favor the AK-47, professional armies lean toward the M4’s technological edge. With ...