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

The canal’s completion could exacerbate regional conflict, but also presents an opportunity for regional cooperation.

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 ...

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 ...

In December 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in response to the assassination ... Carter's move effectively engaged the ...

In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces ... Mujahedeen fighters who had been trained in Pakistan during Afghanistan's civil war in the ...

and ended the bloody Soviet war in Afghanistan that had raged since 1979. Meanwhile, his policy of glasnost, or openness, allowed people to criticise the government in a way which had been ...