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

Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan ...

The status of the other two is still unknown. "According to information from the Russian embassy in Afghanistan: local search and rescue services have found the Falcon 10 airplane. Preliminary ...

with increasing global tensions due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Putin has, in the past, lamented the economic state of the USSR. In February 2024, Putin pledged to avoid a ...

"We worry very much about our closest allies and neighbors that border Afghanistan and Russia without any visa regime and we are really worried about the Afghan people. The USSR was the first to ...

Two Americans being held in Afghanistan have been freed by the Taliban in exchange for a “violent jihadist and narcotics trafficker” serving life in California — just hours after President ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Soon after this, Gorbachev announced the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan and a huge reduction in the size of the Soviet armed forces.