The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...

The covert aid program initiated under Carter became the backbone of the Afghan insurgency, setting the stage for the Soviet ...

A large number of soldiers return as amputees, and many suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Once home, they face ...

It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet ...

Jimmy Carter switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, a move that remains a point of tension, though it moved ...

The space in which refugee Shaharzad has to live has shrunk to the small courtyard of a guesthouse in Pakistan's capital, ...

His name was Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, and he had deployed once to Afghanistan from 2009 to early ... Background: The former Soviet bloc and current NATO member first bought several of the systems ...

On this week's episode of Close Up, we look at Jimmy Carter's impact across the globe — and here in Iowa.

Their conclusion that the Biden administration overestimated the risk of escalation underestimates just how hard it is to ...

Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013, attempts to rewrite history on the Foreign ...

When the war was over, young Gorbachev was ... including a poorly conceived anti-alcohol campaign, the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

If Trump withholds assistance from Ukraine to force President Volodymyr Zelensky toward a cease-fire dictated by Moscow, the ...