Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

Why Kabul, and why 1371? To start, there is the scale of the abuses and their context. The year 1371 was Afghanistan’s first full year of freedom from Soviet manipulation, in the wake of ten ...

was jailed by Soviet forces on the outskirts of Kabul. Omar and her mom, Khadijah, were not allowed to see him, but they could bring him fresh laundry. For two years “we only knew he was alive ...

The Daily Beast published – then swiftly deleted – a story this weekend with allegations that Donald Trump has been recruited as a KGB asset since 1987 and was given the codename “Krasnov ...

In a video posted on Telegram in early February, two floating barriers are shown at the entrance to the natural harbor at Balaklava in Russian-held Crimea. Pro-Ukrainian activists claim the ...

A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov”. The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev ...

Suicide Blast Near Kabul Government Offices Kills Attacker, One Other KABUL (Reuters) -A suicide bomber killed one person and wounded three in an attack near government offices in Kabul on ...

A suicide attacker has detonated explosives near a government building in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing one person and wounding three others, a Taliban government spokesman has said.

According to the Air University, when Kabul fell, around 25% of all Afghan ... but they are independent in maintaining Soviet/Russian-origin Mi-17s and Mi-171s. They also have moderate capacity ...