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.
But Islamabad-Washington ties have mostly pivoted on how Pakistan aided US policies in the region, mainly in Afghanistan, which saw the Soviet invasion in the 1970s and 1980s, or the US-led “war ...
The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland had begun in 1939, following a Soviet invasion of Finland and just three months after the outbreak of World War II. This Winter War was followed ...