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 ...

When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron ...

Russia changes only when it loses wars.

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 ...

He compared the situation to the 1990s in Russia, when the return of veterans from the Soviet-Afghanistan war fueled violence across the former USSR. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry pushed back ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared 2025 the "Year of the Defender of the Fatherland," but the soldiers whose ...

One of the keys to the Taliban success was they offered an alternative. They said, “Look, the mujahedeen fought heroically to liberate your country but have now turned it into a war zone. We offer ...

"We've all seen old Soviet films with veterans of the war in Afghanistan in the street, vodka in their hands," Oleksandr told AFP. Attitudes towards therapy have changed radically since the start of ...