Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union's failed war in Afghanistan helped bring down its empire. Now Russia's faltering war effort in Ukraine is raising doubts about the future of Putin's regime.

Russia's four-month offensive on the destroyed Donetsk town of Avdiivka, in eastern Ukraine, cost more lives than the 10 years of war Moscow waged under the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, new ...

Analysts in Afghanistan see the current crisis in Ukraine as an unintended consequence of the Afghan-Soviet war, which bankrupted the Kremlin and set the stage for the Soviet collapse and the ...

Red Army soldiers cross the Amu Darya River at the Soviet-Afghan border in Termez on February 15, 1989, during the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. ... and the Russia-Ukraine War.

Iurie Cibuc, 62, was proud to fight for the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He doubts that a new generation of Russian soldiers feel the same about the war in Ukraine. #UncoveringEurope ...

No, this is not a reference to the Ukraine War—though it very well could have been. In fact, this is an allusion to the Soviet-Afghan War from 1979 to 1989 that defined the geopolitics in the 1980s.

The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted more than nine years. It was a cauldron that took the lives of 15,000 Soviet soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians, and turned millions of ...

Until 1991, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, which fought against the mujahedeen, the Afghan resistance, during the Soviet-Afghan war from 1979 to1989. Some Ukrainians still hold resentment ...

Veterans of the Soviet Union's decade-long war in Afghanistan see parallels — and stark contrasts — with the U.S. experience and exit after two decades there.

The Russian war in Ukraine, ... He compared the situation to the 1990s in Russia, when the return of veterans from the Soviet-Afghanistan war fueled violence across the former USSR.