In 1979, the Soviet Union joined the Afghan military in fighting the rebellious Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan. More than nine years later, in early 1989, the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, having ...

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 ...

Former Afghan Mujahideen attend a function marking the victory anniversary of Mujahideen freedom fighters against Soviet forces, in Kabul on April 28, 2012. Former Mujahideen leaders and Afghan ...

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.

In the Afghan city of Herat, the Museum of Resistance - also known as the Museum of Jihad - has reopened after changes by the country's Taliban rulers. The museum is dedicated to the mujahideen who ...

* Grisly dioramas show horrors of 1979-89 war * Anti-Soviet battles were followed by Afghan civil war By Golnar Motevalli HERAT, Afghanistan, April 26 (Reuters) - The bloodied corpses of Soviet ...