Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet soldiers and ...

The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...

When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people out. Leshchinsky wasn't a soldier. A reporter ...

A former Soviet soldier has been discovered hiding in Afghanistan under an assumed identity 33 years after going missing. Bakhretdin Khakimov disappeared during the first months of the nine-year war ...