The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decades long series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and ...

In the late 1970s, the Soviet Union launched a decade-long war in Afghanistan that would cost it 15,000 lives and contribute to its ...

As a candidate, President Donald Trump promised to end wars around the world — or at least end U.S. involvement in them — but the war between Israel and Iran that began last week has prompted a more ...

ON THE PAGE, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s fate is always to be compared to Henry Kissinger. It was the same in life. The two men ...

Ending the Russia-Ukraine war demands a shift in strategy from the Trump administration—one that compels Russian President ...

A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they can and leave forever ...

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 ...

“So you see the gradual conflation of the memory of Afghanistan with the far more glorious Second World War, with joint memorials and so on.” Artemy Kalinovsky, a prominent scholar of the ...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union's failed war in Afghanistan helped bring down its empire. Now Russia's faltering war effort in Ukraine is raising doubts about the future of Putin's regime.

But they are from a different war and another era ... down and interviewed scores of soldiers who survived the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that began in 1979, and the mothers and wives of ...