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.

The withdrawal of the Soviet 40th Army from Afghanistan from 1988 to 1989 was a militarily successful operation save one mistake. 30 years ago this month, on February 15, 1989, the last Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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