At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul ...

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet Union-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. Afghan mujahideen · War rug · Afghan refugees · Afghan Commando Forces

21 окт. 2024 г. · Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, military action carried out in late December 1979 by Soviet troops. The Soviet Union intervened in support ...

In the recent past, during the 1980s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) played a significant role in inserting U.S. influence in Afghanistan by funding ...

Following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the United States supported both the Afghan resistance fighters and diplomatic efforts to achieve a Soviet ...

However, his modernization reforms resulted in a strong backlash from rural religious communities, and Afghanistan was plunged into a civil war in 1929. The war ...

Afghanistan, the realities show that Afghans have never been more resolved to resist the military occupation of the U.S.S.R.'. In the United States, partly ...

28 янв. 2022 г. · Within the study I review two primary explanations for the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Despite the strong resistance of local forces to ...

Recently declassified documents from archives in the former Soviet Union and memoirs of senior Soviet military and political leaders present the complex and ...