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 ...

Vladimir Sorokin. Photograph by Maria Sorokina. My problems started much earlier than the night before deadline—they started ...

For decades Germany was allergic to debt. But new chancellor Friedrich Merz has - unexpectedly - loosened the country’s constitutional debt brake, injecting hundreds of billions of euros into the ...

Named after the mystical seeing stones in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the secretive tech firm sells software that can ...

President George W Bush saw the Iraq war as “a crusade” to rid the world of “evil-doers” by “God’s chosen nation”, records ...

The five ‘Stans’, independent nations since 1991, are influenced by their neighbours, but distinctive and fascinating.

What motivates foreigners to fight for Ukraine and how the International Legion differs from the rest of the Armed Forces of ...

(Apart from the 9 planets, as per western astrology, there are 3 more outer planets known as extra saturnian planets which ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Afghanistan's acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, discussed economic ...

In a dramatic shift with far-reaching geopolitical implications, Russia has become the first major world power to formally ...

Nearly four years after the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, numerous countries have diplomatically engaged with the Islamic ...

Russia has advanced around Pokrovsk for many months, but has so far failed to entirely encircle or seize control of the city.