The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

maps and medals, a Toshiba boombox, a pair of combat boots, and a child's drawing of the machines of war. The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted more than nine years. It was a cauldron that took the ...

After World War II, as both the United States and the Soviet Union competed for ... The Soviets in return used the strategic location of Afghanistan, at the juncture of Asia and the Middle East ...

Opalev served as a captain in the Soviet army as it was gradually humbled by Afghan mujahedeen fighters during a decade of war in the 1980s. The problem, he says, is how U.S. forces left.

His defection, revealing extensive Soviet espionage activities, marked a pivotal moment in the Cold War. The interplay of internal espionage and foreign intervention in Afghanistan, with ...

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 ...

maps and medals, a Toshiba boombox, a pair of combat boots, and a child's drawing of the machines of war. The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted more than nine years. It was a cauldron that took the ...

Veterans of the Soviet Union's decade-long war in Afghanistan see parallels — and stark contrasts — with the U.S. experience and exit after... We Asked Vets Of The Soviet-Afghan War To Judge ...

Three years earlier, the Soviet ... maps and medals, a Toshiba boombox, a pair of combat boots, and a child's drawing of the machines of war. Igor Yerin, the director of a museum dedicated to the ...

Three years earlier, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan to prop up a friendly regime. But the war against the mujahedeen turned into an unwinnable quagmire, and on Feb. 15, 1989, the last Soviet ...