A Soviet soldier who went missing in Afghanistan during the invasion of the country by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 33 years ago has been found alive and well, living ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

The first thing to understand about the Taliban—“student” in the Pushto language—is that it originated not in Afghanistan, but in northern Pakistan and gathered support after the Soviet troops ...

He wants to buy his future wife jewelry, he explains. “In the Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals and psychiatry in general were punitive. It was a way to combat people who were against the ...

That Britain’s Special Forces almost certainly conducted a campaign of extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan with impunity. And that a military judicial system built to restrain them catastrophically ...

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 ...

Following the Pahalgam terror attack, India accused Pakistan of harboring Lashkar-e-Taiba, a charge Pakistan's defense minister Khawaja Asif denied in a BBC interview ...

Founded in 1985 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Akhtar, HuJI emerged as a radical Islamist militant organization during the Soviet-Afghan war. Initially focusing on Afghanistan, the group ...

Encouraged and funded by the United States and Saudi Arabia, the regime in Islamabad and Rawalpindi had helped prop up the Islamist fighters against the Red Army during the Soviet-Afghan War of ...