The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

The war was a mistake – according to Soviet authorities ... the past and this has to begin with mujahideen leaders and senior officials. Afghanistan’s people and its politicians understand ...

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 ...

At his home in the mountains north of Kabul, former mujahideen fighter Shah Sulaiman closed his damaged eyes, took a sip of green tea and thought bitterly of Afghanistan's war against the Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON — Over the years, U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have paid close attention to the failed Soviet Union experience ... holding the American-funded mujahideen, or holy warriors, at ...

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 ...