When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people out. Leshchinsky wasn't a soldier. A reporter ...

In April 1985, a small Soviet garrison of 39 paratroopers found themselves surrounded by roughly 250 Afghan Mujahideen fighters in Paktia Province during the Soviet–Afghan War. Cut off from ...

By the 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Su-25 Frogfoot had validated the shturmovik concept, influencing successor aircraft like the Su-39.

Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...

A former Soviet soldier has been discovered hiding in Afghanistan under an assumed identity 33 years after going missing. Bakhretdin Khakimov disappeared during the first months of the nine-year war ...

A new National Geographic documentary is asking a crucial question: was the two decades and $2 trillion spent fighting terrorism in Afghanistan worth the sacrifice of thousands of Americans who died ...

President Jimmy Carter, right, surrounded by journalists after announcing he was lifting the travel ban on Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Cambodia, March 9, 1977. AP Photo/file Former President Jimmy ...