Some 2,300 miles south, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan — now an independent country but back then part of the Soviet Union — Rustam Khodzhayev still struggles with the Afghanistan war. "It was a hard ...

CHARLES MAYNES, BYLINE: First, the differences. It's February 15, 1989, the final day of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Camera crews are calmly filming as the last troops prepare to pull out.

WASHINGTON -- Military experts said yesterday that as many as several hundred veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan may be fighting for rival ethnic groups in the Central Asian nation.

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 ...

His mischaracterization of the Soviet war contained no single scrap of truth, let alone logic. It was issued to justify an Afghanistan policy that risks undermining the very few gains almost two ...

A mujahideen fighter holds a stinger March 15, 1989, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Getty Images Cold War rivals of the USSR swiftly condemned the Soviet intervention and came to the aid of the ...

John Allen, the Marine general who retired last year after serving as the top coalition commander in Afghanistan, said a study of the Soviet war in Afghanistan produced key lessons. "I sought to ...

Although they did not serve in combat roles, they still experienced the horrors of war. As Russia on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan ...

There was no official Afghan War. There was no invasion of Afghanistan, as the western powers always accused. Instead, a limited contingent of Soviet troops was officially invited by the ...

His mischaracterization of the Soviet war contained no single scrap of truth, let alone logic. It was issued to justify an Afghanistan policy that risks undermining the very few gains almost two ...