When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people out. Leshchinsky wasn't a soldier. A reporter ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday announced a ceasefire following days of the deadliest clashes in years that killed ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday announced a ceasefire following days of the deadliest clashes in years ...

Even after three decades, Gennady Tseuma remembers the wavering call to prayer that went up clear over the hillside village. It floated out over the fields and river and pierced the early morning hush ...

Afghanistan was the only country to oppose Pakistan’s entry into the UN. Despite some shared ties, there has been much to ...

During his freewheeling, 90-minute cabinet meeting Wednesday, President Donald Trump briefly argued that the Soviet Union "was right" to invade Afghanistan in 1979 because "terrorists were going into ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thirty years after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, some Russian politicians are calling for a reassessment of the conflict which critics have long cast as a bloody foreign ...

Following the Kabul explosions, speculation swirled on social media that Pakistan was behind the attack, allegedly targeting senior TTP leaders, including its chief, Noor Wali Mehsud, as per Al ...

It is a sad situation, considering Pakistan has shielded and hosted around five million Afghan refugees (ARs) since former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan around 1979, despite Islamabad not being a ...

The Scud-B missile is a tactical ballistic missile developed by the USSR in the 1950s. The missile remains operational today ...

Afghanistan's Defence Ministry said Friday that Pakistan was responsible for that attack and for another, in the eastern ...

Pakistan violated Afghanistan's airspace by bombing a civilian market in the Margha region of Paktika province near the ...