When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people out. Leshchinsky wasn't a soldier. A reporter ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thirty years after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, some Russian politicians are calling for a reassessment of the conflict which critics have long cast as a bloody foreign ...

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Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush ...

Since Russia began its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies have provided historic levels of assistance to Kyiv, implemented the most extensive network of ...

In 1979, the Soviet Union joined the Afghan military in fighting the rebellious Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan. More than ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 25 -- As a special operations commander with Soviet military forces trying to subdue Afghanistan in the early 1980s, Sergei Goncharov's mandate was to capture or kill Afghan guerrilla ...

Twenty-five years ago Friday, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to preserve communism along the Soviet borders. President Jimmy Carter sent U.S. troops to help the Afghans win over the Soviets, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Soviet veterans marking 20 years since their defeat in Afghanistan warned the United States it would never truly control the country, citing bitter memories of a fiercely proud ...

ISLAMABADISLAMABAD — Moscow will keep helping Afghanistan on its own and through the U.N. food agency, Russian officials said Friday as they hosted Taliban representatives for talks on regional ...