When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron ...

Discovered against the turbulent backdrop of the Cold War, the Tillya Tepe treasure ... In 1978, a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed ... of the American intervention in the Vietnam War). When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, the Mi-24 Hind was among ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Afghanistan is a place, not a war. Taliban suicide bombings may dominate the news, but the sprawling Central Asian ...

the belief that the United States’ intervention signified a genuine commitment to rebuilding Afghanistan from the wreckage of the Cold War, which had already left their lives in ruins.

The end of the Cold War The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played major ...

Trump thanked Pakistan for helping arrest an ISIS-K operative charged with supporting an Afghan bombing that killed 13 US ...

In a country where there seems no limit to suffering, we saw a fresh level of desperation among the people of Badghis – Afghanistan's ... horribly weak and cold to the bone.

The world experienced a bumpy ride in the final years of the Cold War, with post-Vietnam détente, the Star Wars rhetoric of the US, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the collapse of communism.