During the Soviet military involvement in Afghanistan, their aircraft would sometimes attack Mujahideen bases in Pakistani ...

The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...

The phrase "Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires" is perpetuated by the Taliban as a way to mythologise the image of the ...

The former U.S. and Soviet air base has been a central location for empires for thousands of years. Does Trump truly ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...

K N Pandita and Fatima Baloch The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) militarily intervened in Afghanistan in 1979, ...

As the two neighbours entered into ceasefire, it is unlikely to be a lasting solution. History and ideology, among others, ...

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

A third day of peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan are underway in Istanbul, officials on both sides said. The talks ...

The two countries are embroiled in a bitter security dispute, with each side saying they were responding to aggression from ...