True to the 'X factor' of Afghanistan's nebulous, twisting history, it took a relic of the Soviet fishing industry to bring the Western war machine to a standstill. As international forces arrived ...

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. Chinese hackers stole ...

The rockets date back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1980s. "This is the UN's 10th annual report documenting the plight of civilians in the Afghan conflict - more than 32,000 civilians killed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have escalated in recent weeks, sparking fears of a full-blown Pakistan-Taliban war ...

Only the inquiry team and representatives from the Ministry of Defence have been allowed to attend the closed hearings, ...