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 ...

Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush ...

The war is ending, but the danger is peaking. Soviet columns move through hostile terrain while Su-25s sweep ahead, cover the ...

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 ...

In 1979, the Soviet Union joined the Afghan military in fighting the rebellious Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan. More than ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban used the 23rd anniversary of the humiliating Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday to taunt the United States that it would suffer the same fate as preparations ...

Three years after overrunning Afghanistan, Taliban militants who now control the impoverished Central Asian country are showing off their military hardware, including a number of apparently ...

MINSK, 13 February (BelTA) - An official first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the postal stamp sheet marking the 35th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan was held at ...