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Russia Builds 4G Network in Afghanistan as Ties With Taliban Deepen
A U.S.-sanctioned Russian telecom equipment developer installed 4G mobile network systems in Afghanistan last year to provide ...
Army Times on MSN2d
Trump administration plans to end Afghan relocation programs
The White House plans to shutter a program that relocates Afghan nationals who are endangered because of their involvement ...
The National Interest1y
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Should Guide Our Approach to Russia
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 ...
Business Insider2y
A failed war helped bring down the Soviet Union. Now Putin's failing war in Ukraine might set Russia up for a bleak future.
Related stories Withdrawal would likely embolden the ... Public self-criticism surrounding the Soviet war in Afghanistan, however brief and contested, shows that reassessment of imperial ambitions ...
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One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan
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 ...
Washington Times2y
Biden’s disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan
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 ...
Foreign Affairs3y
Putin’s Afghanistan
Signaling the Soviets’ defeat, the withdrawal from Afghanistan set in motion a stunning series of events that would change the world. Countries within the Soviet bloc and the Warsaw Pact saw an ...
Voice of America3y
US-Pakistan Relations Ebb After Afghanistan Withdrawal
after Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the U.S. no longer needed Pakistan's support and regional intelligence. Following last year's U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, after two decades ...
Digital Journal3y
Taliban declare Soviet exit holiday, six months after seizing power
“The Soviet withdrawal was not an achievement but only the start of crises,” said exiled Afghan analyst Ahmad Saeedi. “Afghanistan is again at the brink of failure with challenges only ...
The Daily Free Press3y
Let’s Talk About: The withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan parallels history of Soviet intervention in the country
Considering the recent events in Afghanistan — such as the territorial gains and control of the Taliban, the Kabul Airport attack and the withdrawal of U.S. troops ... and unsettling similarities ...
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We Asked Vets Of The Soviet-Afghan War To Judge The U.S. Exit. Here's What They Said
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.
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We Asked Vets Of The Soviet-Afghan War To Judge The U.S. Exit. Here's What They Said
When the Soviet Union completed its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, it was widely hailed as a much-anticipated end to a bloody quagmire, but public perceptions have changed. The footage ...