On this day in 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. Chinese hackers stole ...
The GRU spent tens of millions of dollars funding terrorist groups in Afghanistan to target U.S. and NATO forces, and routed ...
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...
The Taliban are now reducing their over-reliance on Pakistan and exploring alliances and friendships beyond Islamabad ...
By Masood Farivar President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan rebels ...
Ask students what else they think the United States should have done in Afghanistan following the Soviet-Afghan War and during the rise of the Taliban. Could we have prevented or improved the ...
Even though Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States (1977-81), served just one term, his foreign policy that ...
It was Carter who called for that boycott — a Cold War power play intended to express America’s disdain for the Soviet ...
In December 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in response to ... effectively engaged the Soviets in a proxy war that began to bleed the Soviet Union. Economist Elizabeth Clayton concluded ...