The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

Meanwhile, many signs and echoes of the former Soviet Union have resurfaced in Afghanistan over the past decade, often in unexpected forms. Georgian and Azeri troops served among the ISAF forces ...

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 ...

As Soviet forces pushed back Nazi troops in Europe in 1944 and 1945, they liberated a number of death camps, including Majdanek, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück. THE FRONT ...

In 1988 the president of Afghanistan, Mohammad Najibullah, made a fateful decision. After years of combat, exhausted Soviet troops were finally withdrawing from the country. Fearing Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...

A commemoration to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz camp in Poland by Soviet troops was attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family members of Soviet troops to ...