In May 1988, Soviets started to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan after more than eight years of fighting. The process ...

"Today America is facing the same fate as the former Soviets and trying to escape from our country," the Taliban said in a statement. Purposely issued on the 25th anniversary of the final Soviet ...

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 ...

Vygaudas Usackas in The Wall Street Journal on lessons from the Soviets and Afghanistan Usackas, now the EU's ambassador to Afghanistan, begins by describing his regiment's successful attempt to avoid ...

I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...