When asked whether the Soviet Union should have sent troops to Afghanistan, 42% of those polled said no, while 31% said yes. Another 27% found it difficult to answer the question. Most of those ...

a former Afghan Army cadet who trained in Russia in the 1980s and later headed an Afghan Border Police anti-smuggling unit on the border with Uzbekistan. The Soviet-built bridge at Hairatan ...

During the factional war that followed the Soviet pullout, Russia provided financial and military support to groups opposed to the Taliban. But after the US invasion of Afghanistan following the 9 ...

Russia moved a step closer towards recognising the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Tuesday as parliament voted in favour ...

The reality in Afghanistan and the region provides a lot for peacemakers to work with -- if we can look past gloomy predictions. 40 years ago, the Soviet Union eliminated a communist rival from ...

Often, the Spetsnaz are thought of as Army commando units ... clandestine force which were deployed at the behest of the Soviet intelligence security services for special missions.

In the 1980s (Afghan years 1359-68), the Soviet Red Army and its allied Afghan army committed massive war crimes and crimes against humanity, intentionally targeting civilians and civilian areas ...

This applies to neighbors like the late East India Company, the late Soviet Union, or nearby Pakistan, seeing Afghanistan though the prism of their own politics and security concerns. More recently, ...

TASS/. The special military operation in Ukraine will end in a victory for Russia, Colonel General (Ret.) Boris Gromov, a hero of the Soviet Union, Afghan war veteran and former Moscow Region ...