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.

Most of the Soviet military was deployed in the larger cities, along major roads and airfields with the majority of forces stationed in the Eastern provinces of Afghanistan. The withdrawal was ...

Afghanistan is in turmoil ... They wanted one thing: the withdrawal of Soviet troops, which they thought would leave them in full control. By denying Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah ...

Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas ... Ultimately the withdrawal of the demoralised Russian forces helped to further the collapse ...

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 ...

As the historian Artemy M. Kalinovsky writes in A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan, talk of leaving was overshadowed by confidence in the Soviet Union’s ability to stabilize ...

“Afghanistan made it Russia because they ... In the decades following the Soviet withdrawal in February 1989—30 years ago next month—Russians slowly began coming to terms with the defeat.

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

U.S. troops are now only four days away from President Joe Biden's Aug. 31 withdrawal ... in the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s against the Soviet Union and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

“We are so tried of war, we want a peaceful solution for Afghanistan’s problems,” he said. A soldier folds a flag at a Kabul air base as the Soviet military prepares for their final ...

The Pentagon is convening a new panel to review the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and previous investigations into the event, according to a new memo released Tuesday. The ...