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 ...

The collapse of the Soviet Empire came suddenly, mostly due to the invasion of Afghanistan. Let's talk about that! Zelenskyy explains his position after disrupted meeting with Trump Former SpaceX ...

As Afghanistan still struggles to find an elusive ... Travelling with Afghan guerrillas during the Soviet war often involved long and exhausting marches along what were known as the 'jihad trails ...

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. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry pushed back ...

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 ...

Once these hornet-like helicopters were deployed to Afghanistan, they became the icon of the Soviet war there (much as the UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter was emblematic of the American intervention ...