Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

In the 1980s (Afghan years 1359-68), the Soviet Red Army and its allied Afghan army committed massive war crimes and crimes against humanity, intentionally targeting civilians and civilian areas ...

In 1987-1989, General Gromov commanded the 40th Army in Afghanistan, while also serving as a representative of the Soviet government in charge of the temporary deployment of Soviet troops in the ...

An explosion has killed four American soldiers disposing of ordnance in Afghanistan ... said a team of about 10 Americans was handling old Soviet missiles or artillery rounds, which can be ...

The birds could carry eight fully equipped soldiers, in addition to ... like helicopters were deployed to Afghanistan, they became the icon of the Soviet war there (much as the UH-1 Iroquois ...

BALANDI, Afghanistan (AP) — An American soldier opened fire on villagers near his base in southern Afghanistan Sunday and killed 16 civilians, according to President Hamid Karzai, who called it ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of the ...