The reality in Afghanistan and the region provides a lot for peacemakers to work with -- if we can look past gloomy predictions. 40 years ago, the Soviet Union eliminated a communist rival from ...

Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old ...

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 ...

with increasing global tensions due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Putin has, in the past, lamented the economic state of the USSR. In February 2024, Putin pledged to avoid a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But bin Laden and his men are probably not hiding in the largest caverns, said Milt Bearden, a former CIA agent who operated in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion. Al Qaida favors smaller ...