As well as being one of the faces of ITV’s ‘News at Ten’, the foreign correspondent forged a career covering the world’s most ...

The Zero Units served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate. Now, they face uncertainty as they begin new ...

Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to ...

How did Pakistan, a nuclear weapons state, an opponent of Israel and a frenemy of the United States, succeed while Iran is in ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen ...

Ultimately, a decision was made to execute Amin through a carefully planned military assault.The operation on December 25, 1979, saw Soviet special forces, disguised as Afghan soldiers, storm ...

A military parade marking three years since the Taliban re-conquered Afghanistan and ousted a Western-backed government featured a number of US and Soviet-made aircraft, including Sikorsky UH-60 ...

The Soviet military rolled into Afghan territory, brutally cracking down on dissident populations while planes carpet-bombed entire towns. Huge streams of Afghani refugees fled across the border ...

Soviet maps of Afghanistan indicate the times of year certain mountain passes are free of snow and passable for travel. Maps of China include notes on local vegetation and whether water from wells ...