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 - ...

When the Soviets left Afghanistan under the Geneva Accord signed between the last Soviet-backed government ... Afghan Islamic fighters known as the mujahideen were still fighting to enter Kabul.

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

Could the Soviet Union have won its war in Afghanistan? Today, the victory of the anti-Soviet mujahideen seems preordained as part of the West’s ultimate triumph in the Cold War. To suggest that an ...

After the Soviet Union began its 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan ... food as a weapon to more robust support for the Afghan mujahideen. Biden voted in favor of a request by the ...

Babrak Karmal is installed as Afghanistan's Soviet-backed ruler. Groups of guerrilla fighters known as mujahideen or holy warriors mount opposition and a jihad against Soviet forces. The ensuing ...

The former Soviet Union was bogged down in Afghanistan for a decade after Moscow’s 1979 invasion, but the way it was dragged in owed a lot to US designs. When former US National Security advisor ...

REPORTER: After the Soviet occupation, Afghanistan's mujahideen claimed Peshawar as their capital in exile. This is just one of countless headquarters that have sprung up in Peshawar. BEARDEN ...

Werewolf), which operates in war-torn Afghanistan. Among the enemies the Soviet helicopter should find and destroy are not only the Mujahideen, but groups of American special forces as well.

Despite grievous mistakes in planning and execution, however, the Soviet war in Afghanistan was no unmitigated failure. Until Washington provided the rebel mujahideen with Stinger surface-to-air ...