Pete Hegseth ordered Pentagon leaders to conduct a "comprehensive review" of the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan ...

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 ...

He much prefers to frame the Afghanistan mission in terms of ... For that reason, Mukhru views the Soviet withdrawal — that day on the bridge — as a happy event. She was a patriot.

Throughout the 1980s, U.S. officials did not expect the Soviet Union to complete an orderly, staged withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of the decade, followed less than three years later by ...

In this debacle, highlighted by the needless loss of American lives, it appears that among these senior military officers, a ...

Pete Hegseth said he's ordering a "comprehensive review" of the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal following a 3-month review of it.

The dismal situation recalls the years after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 ... the West largely abandoned Afghanistan. Rival factions fought each other for control. By 1996, a mysterious group ...

Rather, as Biden has made clear, the withdrawal from Afghanistan is aimed at shifting ... the arming of Islamist fighters against the Soviet-backed regime in order to plunge the country into ...

His tough stand against the Soviet Union led to their collapse ... Mr. Biden ordered a withdrawal from Afghanistan that was a disgrace. It dishonored those men and women who fought and ...