Supreme Court lifted group’s ‘terrorist’ designation in April, as Moscow seeks normalisation in bid for regional clout.

At his home in the mountains north of Kabul, former mujahideen fighter Shah Sulaiman closed his damaged eyes, ... 40 years on, veterans still grapple with Soviet-Afghan war 15 August 2024 at 7:09 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Su-25 carried out its first combat missions during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, flying tens of thousands of bombing sorties against Mujahideen ...

Instead, these birds were used to terrorize Afghan villagers in the failed Soviet-Afghan War that defined the 1980s. ... Indeed, the Mujahideen came to call Mi-24 Hind “Satan’s Chariot, ...

Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet soldiers and ...

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and propped-up Kabul's communist government until 1989, when the Soviets were overpowered by Afghanistan's armed resistance -- known as the Mujahideen ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that one reason the U.S. has so far moved cautiously in trying to get at Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, ... Afghanistan Mujahideen picked the then vaunted Soviet ...