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 ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...

This documentary explores the origins of the Taliban, tracing how the movement emerged from Afghanistan’s chaos during 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 ...

NPR Morning Edition co-host Renee Montagne, who is reporting from Afghanistan, asks the Russian ambassador what lessons can be learned from the... Russian Ambassador To U.S.: Don't Flee Afghanistan ...

Afghans have lived through Soviet and U.S. invasions, civil war, insurgency and a previous period of heavy-handed Taliban rule. Here are some key... The collapse of the Afghan government and the ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...