The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan on February 15, 1989 is "the end of a dark era and a miracle." This was stated by the former head of the Supreme Council for National Reconciliation in ...

After all, the narrator concedes that “Soviet pilots … were permitted to replace [North] Vietnamese pilot casualties. For example, Colonel Vadim Cherbakov reportedly shot down 6 American ...

27. VOA Pakistan Bureau Chief Sarah Zaman reports from Islamabad that Afghan refugees awaiting resettlement in the U.S. face an uncertain future. Camera: Wajid Asad. Video editor: Ali Hussain.

On the 36th anniversary of the Soviet forces' withdrawal from Afghanistan, the caretaker government states that invading forces should take heed and never again take . . .

with increasing global tensions due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Putin has, in the past, lamented the economic state of the USSR. In February 2024, Putin pledged to avoid a ...

The big trade in 1962 happened on Glienicke Bridge, not in the NBA or between baseball clubs. On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union ...

Ukrainian pilots fighting against Russia's invasion ... He had more than more than 300 hours of combat time in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He said low-altitude flying to evade surface-to ...

Known to many as the setup on the F-14 Tomcat, pilots could set the wings ... it participated in the Soviet Union's Afghanistan campaign during the 1980s and saw action as recently as the Syrian ...

Mr. DeTrani recalls that “Reagan’s instructions to Casey were simple: Defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, halt its meddling abroad, highlight its economic shortcomings and encourage ...

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in ... Thus many of the wars ...