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 - ...

The UK's assessment comes as several videos that recently went viral showed men in Russian fatigues and crutches navigating ...

Russia reportedly paid fighters linked to the Taliban $200,000 for every Western coalition soldier they killed in Afghanistan. An investigation by the independent Russian news outlet The Insider ...

Several hundred Russian troops may be surrounded by enemy forces ... mercenary force—more than all of the Soviet losses in ...

Today, as the United States and other countries withdraw combat troops from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and wind down their Afghanistan involvement after 13 years ...

TASS/. Moscow calls on the Australian and Afghan authorities to investigate the crimes committed by Australian troops in Afghanistan and bring those responsible to justice, the Russian Foreign ...

TASS/. Russia’s military cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid for Afghanistan has landed at the airport in Kabul, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. "Upon an order of ...

(Reuters) - Russia moved a step closer towards recognising the Taliban government of Afghanistan on Tuesday as parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to remove the Taliban ...

Russia has its own complex and bloodstained history in Afghanistan. Soviet troops invaded the country in December 1979 to prop up a Communist government, but became bogged down in a long war against ...