He compared the situation to the 1990s in Russia, when the return of veterans from the Soviet-Afghanistan war fueled violence across the former USSR. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry pushed back ...

Once these hornet-like helicopters were deployed to Afghanistan, they became the icon of the Soviet war there (much as the UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter was emblematic of the American ...

The Afghan war involving Soviet troops lasted from 1979 to 1989. About 15,000 Soviet soldiers lost their lives during the fighting in Afghanistan. The anniversary of the Soviet troops ...

Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...

The former Soviet Union fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with Moscow withdrawing its troops in 1989. Since then, Moscow has made a diplomatic comeback as a power broker, hosting ...

Afghanistan has suffered from over two ... the breakup of the Soviet Union, and war in the former Yugoslavia. In the United States, the fall of the Soviet-backed regime in late April 1992 ...

Russia's exports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Afghanistan and ex-Soviet states in Central Asia have jumped following ...

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early ... Then, on New Year's Day 1980, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a non-aligned nation. Castro's foreign policy received a crushing blow.

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 ...