Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

On this day in 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. Trump planning to issue ...

But specific reasons run deeper than goodwill or maybe even a sense of 'owing Afghanistan' after the misery caused by the Soviet invasion and the 10-year war that followed, in which more than a ...

But the rise of communism, the Red Army’s persecution of religious people across Central Asia and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 led the Jews of Afghanistan to leave for good to ...

In a bold move six months before the Soviets' December 1979 invasion, Carter signed a secret directive known as a “presidential finding” that authorized the CIA to provide nonlethal aid to rebels ...

This is facilitated by the near-free movement across the border of tribesmen and groups since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. TTP is TTA’s leverage against Pakistan. While the TTA leadership ...

Initial plans for the canal date back to the 1970s, but the Soviet invasion in 1979 triggered more than 40 years of civil unrest and violence in Afghanistan, putting Qoshtepa on long hold.

Despite these challenges, diplomatic ties have persisted, reflecting the complexities and resilience of their relationship.

the Soviet economy was in trouble and had to look to foreign trade partners and investment. The USSR embarrassingly had to accept grain shipments from the USA. The USSR invaded Afghanistan using ...

"During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, Pakistan established religious schools to train young Afghan refugees as fighters, ensuring influence over Afghanistan," he said.