Reps from China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan also attended the Moscow gathering ...

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 ...

Russia hosted a delegation of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government Tuesday and issued a strong warning against a foreign ...

Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires for a reason. The Soviet Union spent years trying to impose its political and cultural model on Afghans, so did the British Empire. All of these failed ...

Russia has hosted a delegation of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government and warned against any foreign military presence in ...

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 ...

Since Russia began its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies have provided historic levels of assistance to Kyiv, implemented the most extensive network of ...

It would allow the US to again project power in the region, with China close by. But taking it back won’t be easy.

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 ...

Russia hosted a delegation of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government on Tuesday and issued a strong warning against a ...

In July, Russia became the first country to recognize the Taliban’s government after removing the group from its list of ...