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 soldiers and ...

Russia and Afghanistan have centuries-old links, but the Kremlin's recent activity in statements about the Taliban are ...

Many Russian soldiers say they would see a cease-fire along the current front lines as a failure, hinting at the nationalist ...

The long dominance of expensive, long-endurance drones like the $30 million MQ-9 Reaper may be ending as threats to them ...

Mohammed Reza Sazish, a civil rights activist who fled to Pakistan from Afghanistan, fears being caught up in a mass ...

Unexploded U.S. shells killed four people in February alone, after the Trump administration cut funding to demining efforts.

Regional powers—notably Saudi Arabia and Iran—are increasingly choosing a side in the ongoing fracas between New Delhi and ...

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The recent security alert on a flight from Chennai for a person who had been allegedly involved in the recent massacre in ...

Contextual power is the power that frames an actor, whether an individual or a state. The circumstances that frame Pakistan ...

The former Soviet Union fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with Moscow withdrawing its troops in 1989. Russian officials have recently been emphasizing the need to engage with the ...