Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

The collapse of the Soviet Empire came suddenly, mostly due to the invasion of Afghanistan. Let's talk about that! 19,000,000 people left without electricity after entire country hit by blackout ...

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 ...

It should be clear to everyone that Putin has no interest in peace, something Sir Keir Starmer reiterated today at the ...

As the Cold War settled into détente in the early ... Then, on New Year's Day 1980, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a non-aligned nation. Castro's foreign policy received a crushing blow.