Opalev served as a captain in the Soviet army as it was gradually humbled by Afghan mujahedeen fighters during a decade of war in the 1980s. The problem, he says, is how U.S. forces left.

Comments by senior Soviet leaders about the reasons for Moscow’s failure in Afghanistan are eerily similar to those being made today. In a 1986 Politburo meeting focused on the Afghan situation ...

Missing in action since 1980, a former Soviet soldier has been found alive and well in Afghanistan almost 33 years after he was wounded during the Soviet campaign in the country. Bakhredtin Khakimo… ...

The first official deployment of the Soviet army into the Kingdom of Afghanistan began Dec. 25, 1979, and marked the beginning of a decade-long Soviet rule in the country.

WASHINGTON -- Military experts said yesterday that as many as several hundred veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan may be fighting for rival ethnic groups in the Central Asian nation. The ...

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

A group of Western military analysts are snickering at the sight of ancient Soviet T-55 and T-62 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) leading attacks on the battlefield in Russia's latest foreign conflict.

A former Soviet soldier who chose to stay in Afghanistan when the Red Army withdrew following a disastrous decade-long occupation that ended in 1989 has died, officials said Wednesday.

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