Speaking at Davos, Poland's foreign minister said Putin was repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which was ruining Russia's ...

Afghanistan is one of the most fragile nations when it comes to dealing with climate change. According to global rankings, it ...

Afghanistan has suffered from over two ... the breakup of the Soviet Union, and war in the former Yugoslavia. In the United States, the fall of the Soviet-backed regime in late April 1992 ...

Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...

Discovered against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War, the Tillya Tepe treasure ... In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

Almost all founding members of the Taliban movement were part of the mujahideen, which fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. During the factional war that followed the ...

and ended the bloody Soviet war in Afghanistan that had raged since 1979. Meanwhile, his policy of glasnost, or openness, allowed people to criticise the government in a way which had been ...

In December 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in response to ... effectively engaged the Soviets in a proxy war that began to bleed the Soviet Union. Economist Elizabeth Clayton concluded ...