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 ...

Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and bankrupting Russia. "He was very insistent that this mistake should not be repeated. And he's doing exactly that," ...

Our neighborhood in eastern Kabul, Microryan, stood like a forgotten relic—a gray, unremarkable five-story housing complex built during the Soviet invasion. By 2001, the Taliban controlled roughly 90 ...

President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan rebels, but it was the administration of President Jimmy Carter that laid the groundwork.

On the sidelines of the third round of the U.N.-convened Doha Working Group (commonly known as Doha Process) meetings held in the Qatari capital on June 30 and July 1, Russia’s Special Presidential ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches that bankrupted the USSR and that he used to criticize, ...